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 The participants to this week's Plasma Control Workshop. Due to the scale and complexity of ITER, the PCS must be robust, with extensive quality assurance and prior testing, necessitating a timely launching of the design activities. The experience gained through operation of existing devices utilizing a variety of approaches to and implementations of plasma control will be invaluable for the definition of the scope and goals of the conceptual and engineering design phase of the ITER PCS. The Plasma Control Workshop was very well attended with representatives from all seven ITER Member states, plus EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement) and 30 plasma control experts from outside the ITER Organization (IO). IO members from the Fusion Science and Technology Department, CODAC, and the Office for Central Integration and Engineering brought the total participant list to about 50 people. Overall, there was broad agreement on a phased approach beginning with relatively simple control schemes, yet building in from the beginning a powerful architecture that retains the required flexibility to be able to easily expand the complexity of the control schemes as ITER operation evolves. A preliminary roadmap for the conceptual design of the ITER PCS was also agreed, making this a very successful workshop. << return to Newsline #111 |
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