IAEA hosts Fusion Workshop at UCLA
More than 70 top fusion scientists and engineers will meet at UCLA this week to address key challenges facing fusion energy. Under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the conference will take place from October 15-18. This comes on the heels of a separate fusion conference in San Diego last week, also hosted by IAEA. The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory put out a press release on the event. Here is a excerpt from that release:
“There’s nothing like face-to-face talk and presentations to help people resolve common challenges,” said Hutch Neilson, who directs advanced projects at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and will chair the workshop at UCLA.
PPPL hosted a worldwide gathering of fusion scientists at Princeton University last year that led to planning for the workshops. “We felt there was a compelling need for international discussions to look at a wide range of options in an unbiased way,” said Stewart Prager, director of PPPL. “There’s proven to be a lot of interest in the international community.”
The workshops aim to help participants chart pathways to the demonstration fusion power plants that the major world programs envision. Such “DEMO” plants would mark the final step before the construction of commercial fusion power stations that could operate by mid-century.
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