IAEA Fusion Energy Conference held in China
Director General Nominee of ºÚÁÏרÇø, Kaname Ikeda, gave an overview in which he described the roles and responsibilities of the partners who will take part in constructing ºÚÁÏרÇø, the present status and structure of the ºÚÁÏרÇø organization, and its targets in the short term. ºÚÁÏרÇø PDDG Nominee Norbert Holtkamp spoke about the engineering challenges for ºÚÁÏרÇø, such as the performance of the superconducting magnets, neutral beam development, and flexibility during operation. He also described the design review process, which should lead to a new ºÚÁÏרÇø baseline design in spring 2007.
Many of the presentations of the conference are available on the web and .
The next IAEA fusion conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2008.