Registration for the 16th ITER International School in Bengaluru, India, on "Tokamaks as Fusion Reactors" has been extended through 3 September 2026. CLICK HERE FOR ALL INFORMATION.
The National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) of Japan are organizing an onsite training week from 14 to 18 September 2026 in advance of the OP2 operational campaign on the JT-60SA tokamak. Participation in this training is necessary for those interested in participating in JT-60SA control room or operator roles as trainees during this campaign.
The training week will feature lectures about different aspects of operation such as the characteristics of magnets and sub-systems, plasma initiation, real-time control implementation, control room roles and decision flow, experiment implementation, diagnostics, and management. Practical lectures on the use of the human-machine interface (HMI)—the tool used at JT-60SA to prepare for discharges—are also planned.
The call for participation is addressed to members of European scientific institutions/universities involved in EURATOM or members of the Japanese fusion research program and agreed collaborators. Applications from other researchers may be considered on an individual basis depending on their institution’s agreement with the JT-60SA project. Participants must have previous experience in some aspects of operation (diagnostics or sub-system operations, operations leader, session leader).
To create fusion, you need a very different world to the one we live in. It needs to be six orders of magnitude hotter and six orders of…
Six orders of magnitude
To create fusion, you need a very different world to the one we live in. It needs to be six orders of magnitude hotter and six orders of magnitude less dense — and the result is six orders of magnitude more energy than most everyday processes. The EFDA web site has the whole story here...
