This week, 14-18 November 2016, Mervi Mantsinen and Felipe Nathan de Oliveira have participated in the 2017 Planning meeting of EUROfusion Work Package on Medium Size Tokamaks (WP MST1) at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics, Garching, Germany.
The week-long meeting was attended by about 90 fusion researcher from all over Europe.
WP MST1 coordinates the European exploitation of three medium size tokamaks, i.e. ASDEX Upgrade at IPP, Garching, Germany, MAST Upgrade at CCFE, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, United Kingdom and TCV at CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Experiments on medium-size tokamaks complement the work done at the JET tokamak to provide a step-ladder approach for extrapolations to future fusion devices ITER and DEMO and in areas where the MSTs have superior experimental capabilities and flexibility.
Mervi coordinates the MST1 modelling task on fast ions since 2014 and was recently re-elected to carry on in this role for the next two years. This task will be one of the four modelling coordination tasks of MST1 in 2017-2018. In her presentation at the Planning meeting Mervi reviewed the past activities and discussed her views and visions for the coming years.
Furthermore, the BSC fusion group contributed to the meeting with a total of 5 experimental and modelling proposals which were discussed among other proposals at the meeting.