Heating up the engines at JET

The Joint European Torus (JET) chamber (Photo: extremetech)

After almost one year of the JET shutdown, the General Planning Meeting (GPM) was held at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) during the 11th to 13th of October. The meeting was followed on-site by three of our fusion group members, Mervi Mantsinen, Shimpei Futatani and Dani Gallart.

Many aspects of the following JET campaigns were discussed at the GPM. More importantly, all the proposals made by the fusion community were evaluated and a slot was assigned accordingly as a main or back-up experiment or, due to lack of time and prioritization criteria, suppressed, a priori, from the campaign. The selection of the proposals was carried out by the team of Task Force Leaders (TFLs) who presented an ambitious plan for the coming campaigns.

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ITER-BSC collaboration wins a prestigious PRACE supercomputing project

The international project JOREK_P, led by our Fusion group member Dr Shimpei Futatani in close collaboration with ITER, has been awarded with computing time amongst the 84 proposals submitted in the 15th Call for PRACE Project Access. PRACE has granted the project 15.0 million core hours on MareNostrum 4 for a period of 12 months (starting October 2017).

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