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17–22 Oct 2016
Kyoto International Conference Center
Japan timezone

Scientific Scope

Scope


With a number of next-step fusion devices currently being implemented — such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in Cadarache, France, and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, United States of America — and in view of the concomitant need to demonstrate the technological feasibility of fusion power plants as well as the economical viability of this method of energy production, the fusion community is now facing new challenges. The way these challenges are addressed will dictate research orientations in the present and coming decades.
 

The scientific scope of FEC 2016 is, therefore, intended to reflect the priorities of this new era in fusion energy research. The conference aims to serve as a platform for sharing the results of research and development efforts in both national and international fusion experiments that have been shaped by these new priorities, and to thereby help in pinpointing worldwide advances in fusion theory, experiments, technology, engineering, safety and socio-economics. Furthermore, the conference will also set these results against the backdrop of the requirements for a net energy producing fusion device and a fusion power plant in general, and will thus help in defining the way forward.


 

Topics


Papers on the following topics will be considered for presentation at FEC 2016 if they are clearly relevant to the development of fusion energy (see also the Scientific Guidelines for Authors)

  • OV - Overviews

    OV
  • EXC - Magnetic Confinement Experiments: Confinement

    EXC
  • EXS - Magnetic Confinement Experiments: Stability

    EXS
  • EXW - Magnetic Confinement Experiments: Wave–plasma interactions; current drive; heating; energetic particles

    EXW
  • EXD - Magnetic Confinement Experiments: Plasma–material interactions; divertors; limiters; scrape-off layer (SOL)

    EXD
  • THC - Magnetic Confinement Theory and Modelling: Confinement

    THC
  • THS - Magnetic Confinement Theory and Modelling: Stability

    THS
  • THW - Magnetic Confinement Theory and Modelling: Wave–plasma interactions; current drive; heating; energetic particles

    THW
  • THD - Magnetic Confinement Theory and Modelling: Plasma–material interactions; divertors, limiters, SOL

    THD
  • PPC - Plasma Overall Performance and Control

    PPC
  • IFE - Inertial Fusion Experiments and Theory

    IFE
  • ICC - Innovative Confinement Concepts

    ICC
  • FIP - Fusion Engineering, Integration and Power Plant Design

    FIP
  • FNS - Fusion Nuclear Physics and Technology

    FNS
  • MPT - Materials Physics and Technology

    MPT
  • SEE - Safety, Environmental and Economic Aspects of Fusion

    SEE
  • Keynote

    Keynote

    Keynote Presentation

  • Summary

    Summary