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Fusion for Energy celebrates its 10th anniversary

December 12, 2017December 19, 2017

On Thursday the 30 of November, Fusion for Energy (F4E) celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event attended by 500 people in Barcelona.

Fusion for Energy (F4E) is an organization located in Barcelona, Spain. It was created in 2007 under the Euratom Treaty by a decision of the Council of the European Union in order to meet three objectives: providing Europe’s contribution to ITER, supporting fusion research and development initiatives, and contributing towards the construction of demonstration fusion reactors.

Join us! We are looking for an Internship student in Computational Modelling for Fusion

December 5, 2017March 19, 2018

The Fusion Group at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is looking for an internship student with a degree in physics or computer science. The position supports the development and applications of plasma simulation codes in the group and involves different state-of-the-art technologies.

Spanish company will assemble the ITER vacuum vessel

November 1, 2017

ENSA plant located in Maliaño (Cantabria). Photo: ENSA

The international ITER project, whose objective is to demonstrate the viability of nuclear fusion as a source of energy, has chosen to use Spanish technology for the assembly of its vacuum vessel. The different vacuum vessel components will be assembled at the ITER site in Caradache (France) by the Spanish company Equipos Nucleares (ENSA).

Heating up the engines at JET

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017

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.

ITER-BSC collaboration wins a prestigious PRACE supercomputing project

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017

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).

Interview of Johannes Schwemmer, Fusion for Energy Director

October 24, 2017

La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper, has published an interview with Johannes Schwemmer, Fusion for Energy (F4E) Director. F4E is the agency in charge of managing the ITER project (Reactor International Experimental Thermonuclear) with headquarters in Barcelona, where it employs more than 400 people.