Talk:International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility

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[edit] Merge of Fusion power#Materials

Lots of useful info on materials in fusion reactors, should have at least some bits included.

  • Merge - Jak (talk) 17:53, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge complete - Jak (talk) 21:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Site and timetable

Has a site been chosen? The article currently states Preparation for IFMIF construction is expected to have begun around 2006. The article links to http://www.frascati.enea.it/ifmif/ whose news page appears to have been last updated in 1996. The ITER article states ITER will run in parallel with a materials test facility, the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF), but ITER seems far more advanced. The ITER article links to http://www.iter.org/Future-beyond.htm which shows IFMIF starting construction in 2008, which would indicate to me that unless the site has been chosen, they are running behind time. Andrewa 14:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Site and Timetable

March 2007

From: “Fusion News” (pdf) [Dr] Pascal Garin nominated IFMIF-EVEDA Project Leader

The Deputy Director of the Agence ITER France and former leader of the European ITER Site Studies, Pascal Garin, has been nominated Leader of the IFMIF-EVEDA project.

The Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is part of the Broader Approach Agreement between the EU and Japan. IFMIF will be an accelerator-based neutron irradiation facility that will focus on developing and characterising fusion reactor materials. The facility’s key aim is to provide intense high energy neutrons with a sufficient irradiation volume to enable the realistic testing (in terms of intensity and duration) of candidate materials and components for use in a demonstration reactor plant and in future fusion plants. IFMIF will thus play an essential role in the development of future fusion reactors.

The EVEDA phase of IFMIF will be jointly conducted by Europe and Japan, the location of the Joint Team being Rokkasho, Japan. The validation process consists of the design, manufacturing and test of three prototypes: the low energy part of one of the two accelerators, the lithium target and the test facilities, in particular to simulate in realistic conditions for the future materials samples. The budget for the project amounts to 150 million Euro for the EVEDA programme and one billion Euro for the construction of IFMIF. Thirty people (16 professionals and 14 support staff) will support Pascal Garin in getting the project started.

By May this year, the infrastructure in Japan should be ready for the team to take up work, and Pascal Garin plans to move in June. “Even though I am going away, it is like coming back”, the 50 year old physicist said. After having operated in the realm of politics in recent years, Garin says he is glad to finally come back to science and to have been chosen as leader of the IFMIF project.

[see also: http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/physics/FEC/FEC2006/talks/t_ft_1-3.pdf] Polymorph 14:01, 19 August 2007 (UTC)