| Sunday | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Length | |||
| 07:30 | 08:30 | 01:00 | Registration open for short courses. Light refreshments | ||
| 08:30 | 18:00 | 09:30 | Short courses (see programme), includes lunch and light refreshments | ||
| 12:00 | 19:30 | 07:30 | Registration open for exhibitors and delegates | ||
| 12:45 | 17:15 | 04:30 | Tour of Culham (to/from Conference Venue). All those taking a tour of Culham will need to allow time to register for the conference before getting on the bus | ||
| 18:00 | 20:00 | 02:00 | Complimentary drinks reception at Examination Schools | ||
| Monday | |||||
| Start | End | Length | South Writing School | North Writing School (larger sessions will be streamed into this room) | East Writing School |
| 08:00 | Open for registration tea/coffee and Danish pastries | ||||
| 09:00 | 09:40 | 00:40 | Opening Ceremonies | ||
| 09:40 | 10:20 | 00:40 | Plenary – Update on ITER achievements, challenges, and path to operations; Kathryn McCarthy, ORNL | ||
| 10:20 | 11:05 | 00:45 | Break (tea/coffee/biscuits) and posters | ||
| SESSION – Divertors and PFC (1) | SESSION – Operation/Maintenance, Remote handling and Power supplies | SESSION – Tritium, Fuelling, Exhaust, and Vacuum Systems (1) | |||
| 11:05 | 11:35 | 00:30 | Invited: Engineering Challenges of Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) Steady-State High Heat Flux Components; Aftab Hussain, ORNL | Invited: ITER Hot Cell Facility and Remote Handling, Magnus Gohran, ITER | Invited: Overview of UNITY blanket testing station; Santori Konishi, Kyoto Fusioneering |
| 11:35 | 11:55 | 00:20 | B 66 – A full-field validation study of a DEMO divertor monoblock under high-heat-flux conditions; Adel Tayeb, UKAEA | J 476 – ITER Remote handling systems testing and commissioning developments; Emmanuel Brau, ITER Organization | L 93 – The Fuel Cycle Simulator of the EU-DEMO Fuel Cycle; Jonas Schwenzer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 11:55 | 12:15 | 00:20 | B 231 – STEP Divertor – Architecture, Integration and Technology Development Plans; Alan Barth, UKAEA | J 74 – Implementation and future designs of a collaborative robot inside the DIII-D tokamak; Karl Schultz, General Atomics | L 213 – STEP Fuel Cycle Development Activities for a Compound Cryopump to Separate Tritium from Seeding Impurities for Recycle to the Tokamak; Antulio Tarazona, UKAEA |
| 12:15 | 12:35 | 00:20 | B 456 – The long-pulse and impurity seeding experiments under the EAST Quasi-snowflake configurations; Kai Wu, Institute Of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences | J 167 – Preliminary remote handling analysis and validation of the electrical connectors bridge for the IFMIF-DONES High Flux Test Module; Gabriele Benzoni, Politecnico di Milano | L 313 – Irradiation Effects on Tritium Transport in Aluminide-coated Stainless Steel; David Senor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 12:35 | 12:55 | 00:20 | B 75 – In situ growth and replenishment of PFC coatings with real-time material injection for enhanced steady-state plasma operation; Florian Effenberg, PPPL | J 379 – Automated Solution for Remote Superbolt Servicing of ITER Port-Plug Flanges in Engineering Practice; Kaiqiang Zhang, UKAEA | L 318 – The conundrum of fuelling fusion without fission; Thomas Scott, University of Bristol |
| 12:55 | 14:55 | 02:00 | Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| 14:55 | 15:35 | 00:40 | Plenary – Fusion Energy’s Apollo – How STEP plans to stimulate a new industry for a new technology; Paul Methven, UKAEA | ||
| 15:35 | 16:20 | 00:45 | Break (tea/Coffee/traybake) and posters | ||
| SESSION – Next Step Devices, DEMOs, Power Plants & socio-economic studies (1) | SESSION – Blankets and Tritium Breeding | SESSION – Safety, Regulation and neutronics | |||
| 16:20 | 16:50 | 00:30 | Invited: Developing a fast, low-cost, and repeatable system to decarbonise the global coal fleet with fission and fusion by 2050; Kirsty Gogan, TerraPraxis | Invited: CHIMERA Facility Overview, Construction Status and Challenges Overcome; Tom Barrett, UKAEA | Invited: Overview on Safety Regulation for Fusion; Sehila M Gonzalex de Vicente, CATF |
| 16:50 | 17:10 | 00:20 | E 628 Next-step low-aspect-ratio tokamak design studies at PPPL; Jonathan Menard, PPPL | D 449 – DEMO Breeding Blanket R&D in Japan: Its Progress, Issues, and Prospects for Development with TRL Criteria Definition; Hiroyasu Tanigawa, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology | F 395 – The UK Government’s plans for fusion regulation; Edward Lewis-Smith, UK Government – Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
| 17:10 | 17:30 | 00:20 | E 264 – The integrated STEP Prototype Powerplant; Jonathan Keep, UKAEA | D 621 – Optimal Use of Beryllides for Fusion Reactor Blankets; Paul Humrickhouse, ORNL | F 95 – Fusion Design Codes & Standards: ASME BPVC Section III Division 4; Thomas P. Davis, Oxford Sigma Ltd |
| 17:30 | 17:50 | 00:20 | E 371 – Overview of Progresses on CFRAT project; Jiangang Li, Institute of Plasma Physics, CAS | D 429 – Design status and R&D activities for the Supercritical CO2 Cooled Lithium-Lead Blanket of CFETR; Songlin Liu, Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) | F 417 – Environmental and Safety Studies for Advanced Fusion Energy Systems: the ESSENTIAL approach; Massimo Zucchetti, Poltecnico di Torino |
| 17:50 | 18:10 | 00:20 | D 209 – Catalysing development of commercial fusion industry through investment in the UK STEP Programme; Dan Wolff, UKAEA | D 368 – Simulation of Helium Flow Visualization Apparatus for Studies of Blanket Cooling in Fusion Reactors; Yuqiao Fan, ORNL | F 622 – OpenMC: A one-stop-shop for fusion neutronics; Ethan Peterson, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center |
| 18:15 | 19:45 | 01:30 | Walking tour of Oxford – departs from the Conference venue | ||
| 19:30 | 22:00 | 02:30 | Women in Fusion Dinner – off-site at the Randolph Hotel | ||
| Tuesday | |||||
| Start | End | Length | South Writing School | North Writing School (larger sessions will be streamed into this room) | East Writing School |
| 08:00 | Open for registration tea/coffee and Danish pastries | ||||
| 08:30 | 09:00 | 00:30 | Award talk – 40 years of High Heat Flux Engineering: A Career Perspective; Dennis Youchison, Fusionex LLC | ||
| 09:00 | 09:40 | 00:40 | Plenary – Digital twin development of Virtual Tokamak Platform; JM Kwon, Korean Institute of Fusion Energy | ||
| 09:40 | 10:25 | 00:45 | Break (tea/coffee/biscuits) and posters | ||
| SESSION – Tokamak and Non-tokamak Fusion Experiments (1) | SESSION – Materials (1) | SESSION – Diagnostics and Instrumentation (1) | |||
| 10:25 | 10:55 | 00:30 | Invited: The DIII-D National Fusion Facility, supporting ITER and the Reactor Path; George Sips, General Atomics | Invited: Plasma facing materials and related test facilities and requirements for material and component qualification; Dr Gerald Pintsuk, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Invited: Variable-Radii-Spiral Optics for X-Ray Spectroscopy: Dramatically Improved Performance Through Complex Shaping and Advanced Fabrication, Novimir Pablant, PPPL |
| 10:55 | 11:15 | 00:20 | H 119 – JET: 40 successful years of fusion research; Fernanda Rimini, UKAEA | G 373 -Overview of Operational Results from Helium and Hydrogen PMI with Li-based surfaces in HIDRA, Daniel Andruczyk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | C 101 – Time-resolved multi-kilovolt electron and ion temperature measurements of field reversed configuration plasmas; David Kirtley, Helion |
| 11:15 | 11:35 | 00:20 | H 12 – New TF/OH Magnet Bundle Design for the NSTX-Upgrade Fusion Device; Dang Cai, PPPL | G 69 – Finer-scale residual stress characterisation in laser-welded Eurofer97 steel for fusion plant; Tan Sui, University Of Surrey | C 187 – Gas Raman: The Detection of Fuel Cycle Gas; Jessica Gabb, IS Instruments |
| 11:35 | 11:55 | 00:20 | H 219 – An overview of the Demo4 spherical tokamak HTS magnet system in construction at Tokamak Energy; Graham Dunbar, Tokamak Energy Ltd | G 481 – Characterisation of Deposition Layers and Void Formation in the JET divertor with the ITER-Like Wall; Robert Kerr, University of Oxford | C 246 Recent innovation in Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) in-situ extreme micromechanical tests for nuclear fusion; Nicholas Randall, Alemnis AG |
| 11:55 | 12:15 | 00:20 | H 335 – Translating Physics Limits to Millimeters; Simon McIntosh, ITER Organization | G212 – IVC materials: Full-field deformation mechanics for multi-scale performance assessments; Dr Allan Harte, UKAEA | C 290 – Initial operation of the scintillator-based Fast-Ion Loss Detector rotary and reciprocating system in MAST-U; Juan F Rivero Rodriguez, UKAEA |
| 12:15 | 14:15 | 02:00 | Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| 14:15 | 14:55 | 00:40 | Plenary – Recent EAST experimental results and CRAFT R&D progress for CFETR in China; Prof Yuntao Song/Prof Jiangang Li | ||
| 14:55 | 15:35 | 00:40 | Plenary – Strategy and progress of JA DEMO development Yoshiteru Sakamoto, National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology | ||
| 15:35 | 16:20 | 00:45 | Break (tea/Coffee/traybake) and posters | ||
| SESSION – Next Step Devices, DEMOs, Power Plants & socio-economic studies (2) | SESSION – Project Management, Systems Engineering and Virtual Engineering | SESSION – MIXED session | |||
| 16:20 | 16:50 | 00:30 | Invited: Innovative concepts in the DTT Neutral Beam Injector; Piero Agostinetti, Consorzio RFX | Invited: Status of Plant Construction in ITER Tokamak Complex Buildings, Ingo Kuehn, ITER | Invited: Spherical Tokamak Power Management; Stevie Wray, UKAEA |
| 16:50 | 17:10 | 00:20 | E375 – Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ High-Field Path to Fusion Energy; Dan Brunner, CFS | K 249 – Digitisation of Through Life Plant Information Management – From Scientific Experimentation to Operational Plant; Melvin Temple, Melvin | I 421 – The ITER Plasma Control System architecture for First Plasma and beyond; Luca Zabeo, ITER Organization |
| 17:10 | 17:30 | 00:20 | E 153 – Magnetized Target Fusion at General Fusion; Michael Laberge, General Fusion | K 251 – Recent developments in image-based simulation for fusion applications and a component batch case study tested at UKAEA’s HIVE facility; Llion Evans, Swansea University | I 537 – Overview on the applicability of the ITER/NPP-like technologies to the DEMO Plant Electrical System and promising alternatives; Alberto Ferro, Consorzio RFX |
| 17:30 | 17:50 | 00:20 | E 191 Transitioning from Top-Down to Bottom-Up Cost Assessments in Fusion; Matthew Butcher, UKAEA | K 543 – Digitising the Nuclear Sector: Towards a Data Exploitation Plan; Salvador Pacheco-Gutierrez, UKAEA | D 406 – An alternate design to liquid metal blankets; Mohamad Abdallah, Tokamak Energy |
| 17:50 | 18:10 | 00:20 | E 100 Operational Plans for the SPARC Tokamak; Alexander Creely, Commonwealth Fusion Systems | K 582 – Implementation of CFETR plasma control simulation verification platform; Heru Guo, Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences | E 41 – Enriched Lithium for Tritium Breeding in Fusion Energy Devices – Technology and Supply Chain Development; Jamie Townes, UKAEA |
| 18:15 | 19:45 | 01:30 | Walking tour of Oxford – departs from the Conference venue | ||
| 18:30 | 03:00 | 21:30 | Your Professionals Reception – the Varisty Club | ||
| Wednesday | |||||
| Start | End | Length | South Writing School | North Writing School (larger sessions will be streamed into this room) | East Writing School |
| 08:00 | Open for registration tea/coffee and Danish pastries | ||||
| 08:30 | 09:00 | 00:30 | Award talk – Closing the fusion technology gap of advanced plasma-facing materials for a fusion pilot plant and beyond; Jean Paul Allain, PSU | ||
| 09:00 | 09:40 | 00:40 | Staus and prospects for fusion development in Europe; Gianfranco Federici, EUROfusion | ||
| 09:40 | 10:25 | 00:45 | Break (tea/coffee/biscuits) and posters | ||
| SESSION – Divertors and PFC (2) | SESSION – Heating and current drive | SESSION – Tritium, Fuelling, Exhaust, and Vacuum Systems (2) | |||
| 10:25 | 10:55 | 00:30 | Invited: Development of High Intensity Steady Neutron Sources HINEG; Dr Qi Yang | Invited: Present status of SPIDER upgrades; Diego Marcuzzi, Consorzio RFX | Invited: Progress in maturation of critical technologies for the EU DEMO fuel cycle; Christian Day, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| 10:55 | 11:15 | 00:20 | B 403 – Advances in Liquid Metal Technology at the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions at Illinois; David Ruzic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | A 218 – European Gyrotron Development for Advanced Operation Regimes in Nuclear Fusion Experiments and in DEMO; Stefan Illy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | L 341 – Tritium Safety and Sensitivity Analysis of Tritium Extraction eXperiment (TEX) PbLi Loop Using MELCOR-TMAP; Matthew Eklund, Idaho National Laboratory |
| 11:15 | 11:35 | 00:20 | B 158 – Design, research and development of front-face remote handling targets for CFETR divertor; Tiejun Xu, ASIPP | A 301 – Option-Engineering assessment of the STEP Heating and Current Drive System; Mark Henderson, UKAEA | L 365 – Experience and plans in the mitigation of helium leakage risks within the cryostat of ITER, the Achille’s heel of the super conducting tokamak; Robert Pearce, ITER Organization |
| 11:35 | 11:55 | 00:20 | B 377 – Erosion and global impurity transport from tungsten-coated, V-shaped small angle slot divertor in the DIII-D tokamak; Gregory Sinclair,General Atomics | A 131 – Performance and Modulation Characteristics of a 120kV, 100A CW/Pulsed High Voltage Power Supply for Gyrotron Testing with Modulated Current; Simon Keens, Ampegon Power Electronics AG | L 591 – Development of piston driven mechanical pellet launcher for hydrogen pellets; Dr Jyoti Shankar Mishra, Institute for Plasma Research , Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India |
| 11:55 | 12:15 | 00:20 | B 462 – Medium Heat-Flux Cyclic Testing of EU-DEMO lattice limiter mock-up in HIVE facility; James Paterson, UKAEA | A 532 – Designing new efficient mirror cooling for the transmission line of fusion reactor ECRH systems, based on Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces; Laura Savoldi, Dipartimento Energia “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico di Torino | L 661 – Tritium Research at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics; Walter Shmayda, University of Rochester, Lab for Laser Energetics |
| 12:15 | 14:15 | 02:00 | Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| 13:30 | 14:55 | 01:25 | Satellite – Nuclear fusion: Talking about what’s beyond the science; EUROfusion, Socio-Economic Studies Group (Room 15) | ||
| 14:15 | 14:55 | 00:40 | Plenary – Wendelstein 7-X in the steady-state regime, Assembly, Commissioning and Operation; Prof Hans-Stephan Bosch, Max.Planck-Instut für Plasmaphysik | ||
| 14:55 | 15:35 | 00:40 | Plenary – The Global Fusion Industry in 2023 – An overview of the plans, timelines, and investment in commercial fusion; Andrew Holland, Fusion Industry Association | ||
| 15:35 | 16:20 | 00:45 | Break (tea/Coffee/traybake) and posters | ||
| 16:20 | 18:10 | 01:50 | Private Fusion Panel session | ||
| Tokamak Energy – Warrick Matthews | |||||
| General Fusion – Michel Laberge | |||||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems – Daniel Brunner | |||||
| Hellion – David Kirtley | |||||
| TAE – Artem Smirnov | |||||
| 18:30 for 19:00 | 23:00 | 03:15 | Gala Dinner – St Catherine’s College | ||
| Thursday | |||||
| Start | End | Length | South Writing School | North Writing School (larger sessions will be streamed into this room) | East Writing School |
| 08:00 | Open for tea/coffee and Danish pastries | ||||
| 08:30 | 09:00 | 00:30 | Plenary -Summary from Nonproliferation Workshop; Dr Michael Ford, PPPL | ||
| 09:00 | 09:40 | 00:40 | Plenary – Current status of JT-60SA operation and future upgrade; Sam Davis, Fusion for Energy | ||
| 09:40 | 10:25 | 00:45 | Break (tea/coffee/biscuits) | ||
| 10:25 | 12:15 | 01:50 | DEMO panel workshop | ||
| EU – Gianfranco Federici (F4E) | |||||
| US – Richard Hawryluk (DOE) | |||||
| Japan – Dr Yoshiteru Sakamoto (National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology | |||||
| China – Professor Jiangang Li, ASSIP | |||||
| Korea – Dr. Suk Jae Yoo, President of Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) | |||||
| 12:15 | 13:30 | 01:15 | Lunch | ||
| SESSION – Tokamak and Non-tokamak Fusion Experiments (2) | SESSION – Materials (2) | SESSION – Diagnostics and Instrumentation (2) | |||
| 13:30 | 14:00 | 00:30 | Invited: From Z to a Next Generation Pulsed Power Facility; Daniel B Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories | Invited: Status of Research on Lithium-6 Enrichment and Development of New Technology Using Ionic Conductor; Dt Kenji Morita, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology | Invited: Engineering Challenges ITER Diagnostics; Mike Walsh, ITER |
| 14:00 | 14:20 | 00:20 | H 331 – Recent Advancements in the DIII-D Plasma Control System; Martin Margo, General Atomics | G 647 – Small-Specimen Testing Technique Development for Fusion Materials Qualification and Design Rules Validation: Progress and Challenges; Yiqiang Wang, UKAEA | C 374 – The Conceptual Design of DTT Diagnostics in Support to the Technical and Physical Programme; Dr Andrea Murari, DTT Scarl |
| 14:10 | 16:00 | 01:50 | Satellite – Next Steps to Global Fusion Partnerships; Kyoto Fusioneering, Fusion Industry Association (FIA), Fusion for Future (fusion-for-future.de) | ||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | 00:20 | H 606 – Progress in the design and construction of DTT tokamak area; Gian Mario Polli, DTT S.c.a r.l. and ENEA | G 373 ITER In-vessel Coils Conductor Manufacturing and Irradiation testing program; Anna Encheva, ITER Organisation | C 488 – Solving engineer challenges for multi-energy soft and hard x-ray imaging diagnostics for long-pulse (1000 s) profile measurements at WEST; Luis Delgado-Aparicio, PPPL |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | 00:20 | H 87 – Results from the Development Programme of the CHIMERA Heating System; Petros Efthymiou, UKAEA | G 59 – US Requirements for Fusion Prototypic Neutron Source and Role of Computational Materials Modeling for Materials Qualification in Fusion Environment; Brian Wirth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | C 576 – Applications and Future Directions of CVD Diamond in Fusion Plasma Neutron Diagnostics; Tim Mollart, Element Six |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | 00:20 | H 110 – Fusion Magnet Quench Risk Increase With Radiation Damage; Jacob John, UKAEA | G 326 – Materials and technology pathways for the ARC fusion power plant; Cody Dennett, Commonwealth Fusion Systems | C 600 – Control, Data Acquisition and Communication at W7-X for the 2022/23 campaign (OP2.1); Axel Winter, Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik |
| 15:20 | 15:50 | 00:30 | Break (tea/Coffee/traybake) | ||
| 15:50 | 16:30 | 00:40 | Plenary – Target gain at the National Ignition Facility; Alex Zylstra, NNLL | ||
| 16:30 | 17:10 | 00:40 | Plenary – Technical and organisational challenges of the JET TT and DT operation; Dragoslav Ciric, UKAEA | ||
| 17:10 | 17:40 | 00:30 | Closing ceromonies | ||
| 16:00 | 21:00 | 05:00 | Tour of Culham (to/from Conference Venue) | ||
| Friday | |||||
| Start | End | Length | |||
| 08:00 | 14:00 | 06:00 | Tour of Culham (to/from Conference venue ) | ||
| 09:00 | 11:00 | 02:00 | Oxford Walking tour (meet outside conference venue) | ||
| 12:30 | 16:30 | 04:00 | Tour of Culham (to/from Conference venue ) | ||
