24th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference - IAEA CN-197

Introduction

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, USA — 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 resolution of these challenges will dictate research orientations in the present and coming decades.

The scientific scope of FEC 2012 is, therefore, intended to reflect the priorities of this new era in fusion energy research. The conference aims to be 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 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.

With the participation of international organizations such as the ITER International Organization and Euratom, as well as the collaboration of more than forty countries and several research institutes, including those working on smaller plasma devices, it is expected that this conference will, as in the past, serve to identify possibilities and means for a continuous effective international collaboration.

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, scrape-off layer (SOL)

THD

ITR - ITER Activities

ITR

IFE - Inertial Fusion Experiments and Theory

IFE

ICC - Innovative Confinement Concepts

ICC

FTP - Fusion Technology and Power Plant Design

FTP

SEE - Safety, Environmental and Economic Aspects of Fusion

SEE

PD - Post Deadline

PD

Post Deadline Submission