Job well done: ITER-like-Wall Task Force Leaders (from left): Anthony Loving, Guy Matthews, Malcolm Kear, Valeria Riccardo. Absent: Eric VilledieuEighty-two thousand parts, assembled into 2880 items, installed in only 18 months by a newly-developed, state-of-the-art remote handling system  – this is what the chair of the ITER-Like Wall project board and JET-EFDA leader Francesco Romanelli summed up as a “splendid achievement”. Speaking at the final ITER-Like Wall project board meeting Dr Romanelli said the project was in many ways the parent of all of the recent upgrades to JET, and applauded the team’s contribution to the overall success of the shutdown.

JET restartWorld’s largest fusion experiment back in operation. After an 18-month shutdown to upgrade the machine and four months of commissioning, the Joint European Torus (JET), the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, is ready to start new experiments. The inside of the vessel now has a completely new wall. JET is the first fusion machine to test the materials that will be used inside the next-generation international experiment, ITER.

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European FlagA contest has been launched by the European Commission to reward three women innovators who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The deadline for application is 20 September 2011, 5:00 p.m. (Brussels time).

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Scientists following the first plasma attempt after the 2009-2011 shutdown.First plasma in JET after the 2009-2011 shutdown. After all these months scientists are back at JET. After lunch on Wednesday 24th August, the first attempt to produce a plasma was extremely successful.

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Horizon 2020 is a new name for the future EU funding programme for research and innovation. The name was proposed by the Polish teacher Beata Zyngier together with the Czech teacher Marcela Endlova. Read more here

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Projekty badawcze realizowane przez IFPiLM są finansowane ze środków Ministerstwa Edukacji i Nauki i Narodowego Centrum Nauki oraz ze środków Komisji Europejskiej na podstawie umowy grantowej No 101052200, w ramach Konsorcjum EUROfusion. Wsparcia finansowego udzielają także: Międzynarodowa Agencja Energii Atomowej, Agencja Fusion for Energy, Europejska Agencja Kosmiczna i Konsorcjum LaserLab.

 

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