​​Coordination on International Challenges on Long duration OPeration (CICLOP)


Background


The objectives of the CICLOP group that stands for Coordination on International Challenges on Long duration OPeration are to gain experience with steady-state and long pulse operation in actively cooled devices as they are essential to the ITER international experiment and beyond (thermonuclear fusion reactors). The CICLOP group will promote activities, collect and disseminate information on long pulse operation issues.
These objectives will be achieved by sharing best practice, operational procedures, experimental data, simulation programme and coordinating experiments between the fusion-related IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes in close cooperation (by joint meetings and workshops) with the IAEA activities in the same field (i.e. the IAEA Technical Meeting on Long Pulse Operation of Fusion Devices). It is an informal body with no decision-making power. The group will address the physics and engineering issues of long pulse operation for tokamak and stellarator facilities.
More specifically the group will:
  • Collect, compare and disseminate information on steady-state and long pulse operation (e.g. set-up a web site for sharing information and communication with updated information on facilities addressing long pulse operation issues);
  • Set-up a high level contact and network for tokamaks and stellarators addressing long pulse issues including future facilities;
  • Liaise with the International Tokamak Physics Activity (e.g. the Integrated Operational Scenarios group for the development of the long pulse scenarios) and the chair & co-chairs of the CICLOP group to attend the ITPA-CC meeting;
  • Strengthen the synergy between tokamaks and stellarators, e.g. high-level multi-machines database combining physics and technology for long pulse operation;
  • Identify gaps in physics and technology of long pulse operation or limiting factors in duration and propose actions plan to address the identified gaps or limiting factors;
  • Propose action plans to address long pulses issues as identified in the latest version of the ITER research plan (c.f. ITER specific R&D topics for the effective implementation of the ITER Research Plan);
  • Develop a roadmap of activities to be carried out for long-pulse operation of a fusion thermonuclear reactor including physics, technology, engineering, control, and, modelling/theory;
  • Promote experimental and simulation programmes to address key issues specific to long-pulse operation for ITER and DEMO within the frame of the relevant TCP agreement; facilitate exchange of staff, codes, tools procedure and operational practices within the frame of the relevant TCP agreement.

Members

MatteoBARBARINOIAEAIAEA contact, Organisation of the IAEA TM on LPO IAEA, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, 1400 Vienna, Austria
Eva BELONOHYUKChair of the EUROfusion Operation Network CCFE, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, UK
SebastijanBREZINSEKGermany PWI cross-machine isues for LPO , EU-Linear facilitiesForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung - Plasmaphysik, 52425 Jülich, Germany
Jérôme
Annika             
Patrick   
Pierre      		BUCALOSSI
EKEDAHL
MAGET
Manas		FranceWEST contact , WEST data CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul Lez Durance, France
Stefano CODA SwitzerlandTCV contactEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
RajuDANIELINDIA SST-1 contactInstitute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar - 382 428, Gujarat State, India
Luis F.Delgado-Aparicio

USA PPPL-Contact & Diagnostic for Long PulsePrinceton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
100 Stellarator Road Princeton, NJ, 08540
KazuakiHANADAJapan TRIAM-1M , QUEST contact Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
ChrisHOLCOMBUSDIII-D contact Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA, 94550
ShunsukeIDE  Japan JT-60SA contact National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Naka, Ibaraki 311-0193, Japan
Olaf
Marcin		GRULKE
JAKUBOWSKI
Germany Co-chair, W7-X contact Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Teilinsitut Greifswald, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany
Boris V.KUTEEVRFRF coordinatorNational Research Center, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation
ErnestoLERCHEBelgiumJET contact LPPKMS Ecole Royale Militaire B-1000, Brussels, Belgium
Xavier LITAUDON France ChairCEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul Lez Durance, France
Peter DE VRIES ITER-IOITER contact ITER Organization, Route de Vinon, CS 90 046, 13067 Saint Paul Lez Durance, France
TomohiroMORISAKIJapan Co-Chair, LHD contact National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, 509-5292, Japan
Yuntao
Yingkun
Bin
 xz_gong@ipp.ac.cn 		SONG
XI
ZHANG
GONG		China EAST contactInstitute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China
JuanHUANGChina EAST contact and Member of the PC for the IAEA TM on LPOInstitute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China
Joerg
Alexander		STOBER
BOCK		Germany AUG contact
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, D-85748 Garching, Germany
Didier
VAN HOUTTE FranceRAMI engineering for the long pulse operation CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul Lez Durance, France
Lei XUE China HL-2A, HL2M contact Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu 610041
HyunSeok
Siwoo
 KIM
 YOON
KoreaKSTAR contact National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) 169-148 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea
Eugenio SCHUSTERUSA ITPA-IOS chair and link with CICLOP  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3085, United States of America​