Last week, 24-26 October 2016, our fusion group member Shimpei Futatani attended the ITPA Meeting in Naka, which provides a framework for internationally coordinated fusion research activities.
Shimpei gave an oral presentation on his work ‘Non-linear MHD modelling of pellet triggered ELMs’ at the meeting. The work contributes to the physics understanding of pellet triggered ELM in JET and ASDEX Upgrade tokamaks and has been carried out within EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy.
During the ITPA Meeting, the Japanese Fusion Research Laboratory QST offered the opportunity to see the JT-60SA which is a fusion experiment designed to support the operation of ITER and to investigate how best to optimise the operation of fusion power plants that are built after ITER. Construction of JT-60SA was underway in 2016 and will continue until 2018 with first plasma in 2019.
