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17th EUROfusion General Assembly Meeting, Cadarache, France, 10.-12.04.2017

European fusion research under Horizon 2020 combines target-oriented 5-year (2014-2018) EUROFusion program, which takes place under the auspices of the EURATOM Treaty. The basic objectives of the EU fusion research are related to support of the ITER fusion reactor and in the long-term, the realization of demonstration fusion power plant. The EUROFusion program is performed by a consortium of fusion research units of the EU countries (in total 29), where the Jozef Stefan Institute acts as a Slovenian coordinator and partner in the consortium. The leading partner in a consortium is the Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany. Decision-making body of the consortium is General Assembly.

In the days between 10.04. and 12.04.2017 the 17th General Assembly EUROfusion Meeting was held in Cadarache, France, organized by CEA (Le Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives). At the meeting we discussed and approved the revised EUROfusion program budget for the year 2017, which this time includes funds for the implementation of the experimental campaigns on smaller tokamaks, funding for education and training programs and resources for the "Enabling Research" projects. The General Meeting approved the first phase of the PEX (Plasma exhaust) program. We have acquainted the contents of the second phase of the PEX program, at which point a controversial debate was developed on the classification of the Italian proposal for a new fusion device for testing alternative divertor configuration DTT (Divertor Test Tokamak). The second day of the meeting was devoted to a discussion with the director of ITER, Mr. Bigot. He presented to the Assembly the current status of the construction of the experimental reactor. The discussion was intended primarily for more effective cooperation between EUROfusion program and the ITER organization. For this purpose, a new proposal for the coordination and integration between EUROfusion activities directly related to the ITER was presented. Members of the GA visited the construction site of ITER and production facility of the poloidal superconducting magnets and cryostat assembly components, where the production of technological components is already underway. EUROfusion General Assembly Meeting was attended by Dr. Boštjan Končar from the Reactor Engineering Division, JSI.

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