Dr Jean Jacquinot, senior adviser to the ITER Director-General and a scientific adviser to the French Commission for Atomic Energy (CEA) will deliver a Distinguished Lecture at ANSTO on 1 December to highlight novel scientific aspects of the project and the status of its construction.
The goal of ITER is to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion energy, building on several decades of worldwide research on the physics and technology of magnetic confinement.
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ITER is the world’s largest and most complex energy research project undertaken with the prospect of an inexhaustible source of energy that is respectful of the environment.
To meet this challenge an international collaboration of seven partners (EU, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States) has been established in order to build, operate ITER and share the scientific results.
"The ITER project benefited from bold organisational changes since March 2015 aimed at creating a focused Project Team, helped greatly to accelerate the pace of the construction," said Jacquinot.
Jacquinot will provide examples of major recent achievements including an outstanding result obtained collectively with progress in the manufacture of the superconducting cables:
Ninety per cent of the cable-in-conduit needed for the reactor has been produced fully complying with the technical requirements.
ANSTO and ITER have very recently signed a cooperation agreement which includes the participation of other Australian institutions.
The presentation is expected stimulate a discussion on the scientific issues of common interest which will arise during the construction, the commissioning and the various operation phases of ITER.
Dr Jacquinot is a physicist, who has devoted his entire career to magnetic fusion. He studied magnetic confinement and developed the ICRH heating of tokamaks (theory, antennas and experimentation) based on the minority ion cyclotron resonance.
He worked in the Joint European Torus (JET) venture for 18 years and became its director in 1999.
A member of the ITER advisory committee as early as 1992, Jacquinot led the CEA activities in fusion from the year 2000 to 2004 while taking part in the ITER international negotiations.
Date: Thursday 1 December 2016 at 2pm
Location: AINSE Theatre
Cost: Free
Published: 12/10/2016