Conveners
Remote Experimentation and virtual lab 2
- Mikhail Sokolov (NRC "Kurchatov Institute")
The operation of ITER is expected to happen not only directly in the ITER control room, but also to benefit from human capital from around the globe. Each ITER participating country could create a remote participation room and follow the progress of experiments in relatively real time. Scientists from all over the world can collaborate on experiments at the same time as they are performed....
ITER is now in full construction phase, with many plant systems being installed and commissioned. Plant service systems – electricity, liquid and gas supplies, water cooling, building monitoring – are being gradually commissioned and handed over for operation. Other systems, such as plasma diagnostics, are being developed and tested on site or at the ITER parties, to be installed later during...
With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020, experimental operations at ASDEX Upgrade came to a temporary halt, as for health reasons and due to regulations, many of the people necessary for operations and the scientific programme could not enter the institute premises, and only a very small number of people were allowed to enter the control room itself.
However, thanks to the...
During March 2020 it became obvious that the Covid-19 infection rates were accelerating in the UK and that we would be heading for a National lockdown. It was decided to put JET into a safe state. The site was then shut down, all but for a skeleton staff, there to ensure essential safety and security, with everyone else working from home. Over the next couple of months arrangements were made...
The ASDEX Upgrade diagnostics have provided scientists with the experimental data required to advance the fusion field for 30 years. In this time, the systems and diagnostics of the machine have evolved. Many solutions combined commercial products with in-house productions of state-of-the-art data-acquisition hardware. However, with the ever-increasing advances of the computing industry,and...
The SPIDER experiment (Source for the Production of Ions of Deuterium Extracted from a Radio frequency plasma) is a prototype devoted to the heating and diagnostic neutral beam studies in operation at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) at Consorzio RFX, Padova. SPIDER is the full-size ITER ion source prototype and the largest negative ion source in operation in the world. In view of...
