FPN12-36

IAEA Hosts Fusion Demonstration Power Plant Workshop 15-18 October 2012 - UCLA - USA

June 27, 2012

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has established a series of annual fusion DEMO Programme Workshops to facilitate international collaboration on defining and coordinating DEMO programme activities.

The first IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop (DPW-2012) will be held at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America from 15 - 18 October 2012.

The specific objective of DPW-2012 is to discuss a subset of key DEMO scientific and technical issues with the aim of defining the facilities and programme activities that can lead to their resolution. The workshop output will be information that could be used by any party as input to the planning of possible roadmaps to DEMO.

DPW-2012 will be organized around three topics, where discussion and action are urgently needed. The topics include:

  1. Fusion Power Extraction and Tritium Fuel Cycle
  2. Plasma Power Exhaust and Impurity Control
  3. Magnetic Configuration and Operating Scenario for a Next-Step Fusion Nuclear Facility
All oral presentations at DPW-2012 will be based on invitation only.

Participants should be actively involved in the topics of the meeting. In order to participate in the meeting, all persons not officially invited by the IAEA to give a presentation at the meeting must send a completed Participation Form (Form A) to their appropriate governmental authority for subsequent transmission to the IAEA. Such a participant will be accepted only if the Participation Form is transmitted to the IAEA through one of the official channels by 10 August 2012.

A limited number of posters addressing the workshop topics may be included. Should any participant wish to present a poster, they are requested to submit a one page abstract to physics@iaea.org no later than 10 August 2012. In addition, they must further submit a duly completed Form A to their appropriate governmental authority for transmission to the IAEA. This form must be received by the IAEA no later than 10 August 2012.

Additional information will be made available on the workshop web site currently under development at http://advprojects.pppl.gov/Roadmapping/IAEADEMO/index.asp