Tony Donné – the managing director of the EUROfusion Consortium with his deputy Xavier Litaudon visited a few Polish institutions that take part in European research on thermonuclear energy. The aim of two-days long visit was to present Polish scientific achievements and contribution into the development of nuclear fusion.  

On the first day the guests visited the Sylwester Kaliski Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion and had a chance to participate in the meeting with the members of the national association of the scientific-and industrial centre New Energy Technologies (CeNTE). The meeting was opened by the IPPLM Director Andrzej Gałkowski who introduced the representatives of various units with an aim to present his scientific profile. The EUROfusion manager got familiar with the works of the following units: the Warsaw University of Technology, the National Center for Nuclear Research, the West Pomeranian University of Technology, the PAN Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, the Wrocław Technology Park along with the representatives of the industrial company ELEKTROBUDOWA S.A. The all-day meeting ended with visiting the laboratories of the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion.

During the second day of the visit Tony Donné and Xavier Litaudon visited the laboratories of the National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Świerk and Warsaw University of Technology. The manager of NCBJ Krzysztof Kurek invited the visitors to see nuclear power reactor Maria constructed in 1974, plasma-focus device PF360, Cherenkov detectors and IBIS II device. In turn, scientists of the Warsaw University of Technology showed him around the labs of Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

The visit of the EUROfusion manager Tony Donné took place on 1st and 2nd December 2016.

EUROfusion consortium is the European Association for the Development of Nuclear Energy, gathering research institutions from 27 European countries, including also the associated Switzerland. Additionally, in 2016 some negotiations started to support joining the Ukrainian countries to that group.  

It is not always easy to thoroughly analyze the past and think strategically about the future. However, the scientists from the leading plasma centers of Europe took this challenge with purpose of further continuous development of science in the field of nuclear energy. It was conducted in terms of conference organized by IPPLM ‘European Fusion Programme Workshop 2016 (EFPW2016)’ held in Zakopane in November 2016.

‘We gathered here in order to talk about what we still don’t know about nuclear fusion and what we still should learn’– this is how the managing director of the EUROfusion Consortium Tony Donné started the speech. The leading subject was ‘Towards improved plasma performance in ITER and DEMO consistent with few and tolerable disruptions’, which was discussed in five thematic session: Improved pedestal; Paths to improved core fuelling while controlling impurities and He ash; Paths to reduced core heat transport; Disruption avoidance; Scenario integration.

More than 70 scientists took part in the meeting, those were the representatives of European fusion centers from 16 countries such as: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Hungary, France, Great Britain, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain.  

The Jubilee year of the Sylwester Kaliski Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion achieved its peak point with an official celebration on the Royal Castle in Warsaw, which took place on 16th September 2016. On that day on the concert hall gathered not only multiannual Staff of the Institute but also honorable guests who congratulated from the stage on the Institute’s contribution into the development of Polish science in plasma physics. The IPPLM Director Andrzej Gałkowski had an honour to welcome the Manager of the Marshall’s Office Mrs Magdalena Flis-Lichota, the representative of Energy Ministry Mr Zbigniew Kubicki, the rector of the Warsaw University of Technology Prof. Jan Schmidt, the president of Polish Physical Association Prof. Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow, the Chairman of the General Council of Research Institutes Prof. Leszek Rafalski, the senator of  4th and 5th term, the president of the NOT ward in Częstochowa Grzegorz Lipowski and also the Chairman of Scientific Council of IPPLM Prof. Ryszard Romaniuk.

The official celebration was led by the journalist Krzysztof Michalski, and for the final part the guests had a chance to listen to the music of Fryderyk Chopin performed by a pianist Justyna Lechman. 

The received awards, both individual and collected for the community of the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion added to the elevated atmosphere of the whole event. The Gold Cross of Merit entitled by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda was awarded to: dr Andrzej Gałkowski, Józef Makowski, dr Marian Paduch. The Silver Cross of Merit entitled by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda was awarded to: Jerzy Król, Prof. Tadeusz Pisarczyk. The Bronze Cross of Merit entitled by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda was awarded to: dr Sławomir Jabłoński, dr Monika Kubkowska, Leszek Ryć, Ewa Sieczkowska, dr Roman Zagórski.

Moreover, the Marshal of Mazovian Province awarded the Sylwester Kaliski Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion a Pro Mazovia commemorative medal for the outstanding merits and overall activity for the Mazovian Province.

The Institute was also honored by the NOT Chief Technical Organization with a commemorative plate with the best wishes of success and development of the Institute as well as achievements in implementation of advanced technologies.

In turn, the high schools, research institutes and other organizations close to the Institute expressed words of appreciation in their acknowledgement letters.

Acknowledgement Letters

Jubileusze (Anniversaries) - 40-lecie IFPiLM (40th IPPLM Anniversary) - Listy gratulacyjne (Congratulations)

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On the annual meeting of physicians from across Poland and Italy there were discussions about the prospective of scientific collaboration within the field of thermonuclear fusion. Poles expressed huge interest with the participation in the project about the construction of tokamak DTT „Divertor Tokamak Test Facility”. The main performer of the tokamak will be the partners from ENEA (which stands for the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development).

Additionally, both parties have declared themselves ready to increase the participation in experiments both on Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and on the tokamaks including JET, MST1 and ASDEX among others. Not less important is a bilateral cooperation in educating the scientific staff. The increase of exchange between young scientists between research institutes in Poland and Italy was decided.

This year’s meeting was held in the headquarters of the National Center of Nuclear Research in Świerk between 14-15 July 2016, where more than 30 scientists from both countries took part.

In the first half of June 2016 there was one of the crucial events of the Institute, namely the Summer School of Plasma Physics in Kudowa-Zdroj – „Kudowa Summer School Towards Fusion Energy”.

13th edition of the school collected more than 60 participants, including 47 students and 14 lecturers from Poland, Great Britain, Romania, Ukraine, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, France, India, Iran, Egypt, Lithuania, Belgium, Denmark and Austria. During the five days of school there were 17 hours of lectures on plasma physics and 13 hours of speeches prepared by the students. The lectures were performed by outstanding lecturers from the leading scientific centers such as the ITER organization (France), Max-Planck Institute fur Plasmaphysik (Germany), ForschungszentrumJuelich (Germany), ENEA (Italy), who thanks to their scientific works contribute to the development of thermonuclear  technologies.

During the school there was a competition on the best presentations presented by the students. There were four winners: from India, Poland, Germany and Italy. They were awarded with cash prizes.

Five students submitted their scientific articles to publish in the magazine Nukleonika, which will be published in 2017.

The next edition of the school will take place in 2018.