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(Virtual) Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation

Europe/Vienna
WebEx Meeting

WebEx Meeting

Michael Lehnen (ITER Organization)
Description

The most important initiative on fusion R&D is currently ITER: the international tokamak reactor scale experiment being assembled in France. In tokamaks, instabilities can develop under certain operational conditions or as a consequence of a loss of plasma control. These instabilities eventually lead to the rapid loss of thermal and magnetic energy, a phenomenon known as plasma disruption.

Plasma disruptions cause thermal and mechanical loading to the tokamak components. Due to the high amounts of stored thermal and magnetic energies in ITER, the in-vessel components, such as the first wall panels and the divertor, will receive significant thermal loads. Furthermore, the in-vessel components, the vacuum vessel and the coils in the tokamak must also bear substantial mechanical loads. Disruption mitigation will be essential to reducing thermal and mechanical loading in order to guarantee the lifetime of these components.

Objectives

The event aims to serve as a forum to help coordinate experimental, theoretical and modelling work in the field of plasma disruptions with special emphasis on developing a solid basis for possible mitigation strategies in ITER and next generation fusion devices.

Target Audience

The event aims to bring together junior and senior scientific fusion project leaders, plasma physicists, including theoreticians and experimentalists, and experts (researchers and engineers) in the field of plasma disruptions.

    • Welcome / Introduction
      Conveners: Michael Lehnen (ITER Organization), Matteo Barbarino (International Atomic Energy Agency)
    • Summary of Presentations: Consequences

      The Programme Committee will provide a summary of all presentations and of the main conclusions.

      Conveners: Fabio Villone (Consorzio CREATE), Indranil Bandyopadhyay (ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research)
      • 4
        Disruption Consequences - Summary Presentation
        Speaker: Prof. Fabio Villone (Consorzio CREATE)
    • Questions & Answers: Consequences

      Any technical questions for clarification on individual presentations that were not discussed online. Participants are encouraged to make use of the discussion threads available for each presentation prior to the discussion sessions (second column on SharePoint).

      Conveners: Fabio Villone (Consorzio CREATE), Indranil Bandyopadhyay (ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research), Alexander Huber (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung – Plasmaphysik)
    • Discussion 1: Consequences

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Alexander Huber (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung – Plasmaphysik), Fabio Villone (Consorzio CREATE), Indranil Bandyopadhyay (ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research)
    • 16:45
      Virtual Coffee

      These will be provided through Webex . PC members will create about 5 rooms each day. These rooms will be announced under https://conferences.iaea.org/event/217/page/266-virtual-coffees

    • Discussion 2: Consequences

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Indranil Bandyopadhyay (ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research), Alexander Huber (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung – Plasmaphysik), Fabio Villone (Consorzio CREATE)
    • Summary of Presentations: Prediction & Avoidance

      The Programme Committee will provide a summary of all presentations and of the main conclusions.

      Conveners: Gabriella Pautasso (Max Planck Institute), Carlo Sozzi (Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi ISTP-CNR Milano Italy)
      • 5
        Prediction & Avoidance - Summary Presentation
        Speaker: Gabriella Pautasso
    • Questions & Answers: Prediction & Avoidance

      Any technical questions for clarification on individual presentations that were not discussed online. Participants are encouraged to make use of the discussion threads available for each presentation prior to the discussion sessions (second column on SharePoint).

      Conveners: Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Cristina Rea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gabriella Pautasso (Max Planck Institute)
    • Discussion 1: Prediction & Avoidance

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Carlo Sozzi (Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi ISTP-CNR Milano Italy), Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Akihiko Isayama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
    • 16:35
      Virtual Coffee

      These will be provided through Webex . PC members will create about 5 rooms each day. These rooms will be announced under https://conferences.iaea.org/event/217/page/266-virtual-coffees

    • Discussion 2: Prediction & Avoidance

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Carlo Sozzi (Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi ISTP-CNR Milano Italy), Cristina Rea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    • Summary of Presentations: Mitigation SPI

      The Programme Committee will provide a summary of all presentations and of the main conclusions.

      Conveners: Jayhyun Kim (National Fusion Research Institute), Nicholas Eidietis (General Atomics)
      • 6
        Disruption Mitigation (SPI) - Summary Presentation
        Speaker: Jayhyun Kim (National Fusion Research Institute)
    • Discussion 1: Mitigation SPI

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Nicholas Eidietis (General Atomics), Eric Nardon (CEA)
    • 16:35
      Virtual Coffee

      These will be provided through Webex . PC members will create about 5 rooms each day. These rooms will be announced under https://conferences.iaea.org/event/217/page/266-virtual-coffees

    • Discussion 2: Mitigation SPI

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Eric Nardon (CEA), Nicholas Eidietis (General Atomics)
    • Summary of Presentations: Mitigation General

      The Programme Committee will provide a summary of all presentations and of the main conclusions.

      Conveners: Zeng Long (Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences), Sergey Konovalov (National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia)
    • Discussion 1: Mitigation General

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Sergey Konovalov (National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia), Nicholas Eidietis (General Atomics), Zeng Long
    • 16:15
      Virtual Coffee

      These will be provided through Webex . PC members will create about 5 rooms each day. These rooms will be announced under https://conferences.iaea.org/event/217/page/266-virtual-coffees

    • Discussion 2: Mitigation General

      The discussion will be guided by the threads developed online prior to the discussion session (third column on SharePoint). Participants are encouraged to open discussion threads in the week before the meeting to allow enough time for the preparation of the discussion session.

      Conveners: Nicholas Eidietis (General Atomics), Sergey Konovalov (National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia)
    • Closing
      Conveners: Michael Lehnen (ITER Organization), Matteo Barbarino (International Atomic Energy Agency)