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2ND ITER PRIVATE SECTOR FUSION WORKSHOP
22-23 APRIL 2025 ITER HEADQUARTERS, CADARACHE, FRANCE
ITER welcomes you to THE 2nd PRIVATE SECTOR FUSION WORKSHOP, which we will host at the ITER site in CADARACHE, FRANCE, ON 22-23 APRIL 2025. As with the first workshop in May 2024, this workshop is designed to serve the priorities of private sector fusion initiatives globally, and to facilitate public-private knowledge transfer and collaboration. Last year created a sort of private sector status report, focused on understanding – from a technology perspective – who has achieved what, and how ITER can help. The outcomes shaped ITER’s Private Sector Fusion Engagement Project, launched in November 2024. This 2nd workshop will be different: scroll down to see the primary program elements.
The quest for fusion energy is one of the most ambitious scientific and technological endeavors of our time. It is common to characterize the current state of this fusion quest as a competition between public fusion research programs, such as ITER, and emerging private sector initiatives. In reality, fusion development requires an innovation program—which, optimally, should be a public-private collaboration that takes advantage of the complementary nature of these projects and benefits all.
PROGRAM
22-23 APRIL 2025
The workshop will take place over two days, focusing on three objectives:
Workshop tours will be offered on the afternoon of the first day: general tours for those attending for the first time, plus specialized tours of: the cryogenics plant, the reactive power compensation system, the magnet conversion buildings, the repairs workshops, large components in storage, the radiofrequency building (heating and current drive), the assembly hall, the tokamak pit, the control building, and other areas of interest.
At the ITER Business Forum in Marseille, ITER experts covering an even broader range of disciplines will be available for specialized discussions.
All sessions will be in the ITER Amphitheatre unless otherwise designated.
Tuesday 22 April
- 07:15 / 07:30 / 07:45
Buses depart Aix-en-Provence () - 08:15-08:30
Arrival at ITER- Entrance C gate: security access
- Headquarters (Building 72) Lobby: registration, coffee & croissants
- 09:00-09:30
Opening and Welcome- ITER Organization
- Fusion Industry Association
- Japan Fusion Energy Council
- European Fusion Association
- 09:30-10:30
Innovation in Fusion Technology, Session #1: Use of AI, VR/AR, and digitalization- Use of AI at ITER (precision assembly, plasma behaviour, knowledge management), Microsoft
- Using AI to iterate hardware, Arena
- Digitalizing the As-Built Machine, ITER
- 4D Visualization and Planning, Brigantium
- 10:30-11:15
Coffee Break (Lobby) / Parallel Session- Lecture Room:
- Managing heat load, “island divertor” in a QI stellarator, materials choices, Proxima Fusion
- Assembling LM26, achieving first plasma, and plans for further compression,General Fusion
- Council Room:
- “Repetitive Operated Tokamaks are also Steady State,” using a negative triangularity spherical tokamak, Startorus Fusion
- Reducing complexity and power demands using unique amplifier technology, First Light Fusion
- Lecture Room:
- 11:15-11:45
Fusions Challenges, Session #1: Toward steady-state operation- Long pulse operations at EAST and WEST, ASIPP and CEA IRFM
- 11:45-12:15
Innovation in Fusion Technology, Session #2: Mirror Configurations- Advances in Magnetic Confinement Mirror Configuration, Novatron and Realta
- 12:15-16:15
Lunch and Worksite Tours
Sack lunches will be available to workshop participants in the Lecture Room - 16:15-17:15
Fusion Challenges, Session #2: New structural and functional materials- Concept of fusion reactor hybrid blanket, NIKIET
- Advanced materials and scaling up for a near-term fusion reactor, SWIP / HL-3
- Stainless Steel and Alloys for Fusion Reactors, Zhejiang Jiuli
- Superconducting materials and HTS magnets in the TRT project, NIIEFA
- 17:15-17:30
Buses depart for reception and dinner, Chateau Val Joanis - 18:00-18:15
Start of reception
An exhibition of fusion-related technology innovation will run throughout the reception and dinner - 18:15-19:15
Dinner session: Investors and advocates- Investor scenarios for start-ups and the fusion supply chain, Office of Eric Schmidt
- 19:30
Networking dinner, Chateau Val Joanis - 21:30-22:15
Buses depart for Aix-en-Provence
Wednesday 23 April
- 7:30-7:45
Buses depart Aix-en-Provence () - 08:30-08:45
Arrival at ITER - 09:00-09:45
ITER’s Private Sector Fusion engagement- Project elements, and how fusion start-ups can best take advantage, ITER team
- Advances at TAE and cooperation with ITER, TAE
- 09:45-10:45
Innovation in Fusion Technology, Session #3: Vacuum technology- Overview of ITER vacuum technology, ITER Organization
- Vacuum Instruments, INFICON AG
- Bespoke Cryo-pump manufacturing for fusion, Research Instruments
- High-vacuum valves for fusion, VAT
- 10:45-11:15
Coffee Break (Lobby) / Parallel Sessions- Lecture Room:
- Innovative software application for stellarator precision, Thea Energy
- Lecture Room:
- 11:15-12:00
Fusion Challenge Session #3: Heat exhaust, heat removal, and innovating the fusion fuel cycle- Liquid metal walls, Renaissance Fusion and Helical Fusion
- Delivering tailored fuel cycles, from architecture to operation, Fusion Fuel Cycles, Inc.
- 12:00-13:30
Networking Lunch, Cafeteria - 13:30-14:15
Integrating challenges for a fusion power plant- Bridging the Gaps: Engineering the First Commercial Stellarator Power Plant , Gauss Fusion
- TRT (tokamak with reactor technologies): research program, diagnostic complexes and plasma control, Rosatom
- 14:15-15:00
Coffee Break (Lobby) / Parallel Sessions- Lecture Room:
- Gyrotron advances to enhance power and efficiency and master the high frequency range, GYCOM and Thales
- Council Room:
- Leveraging breakthroughs in lasers and nanoscience, Marvel Fusion
- Designing the polomac for improved efficiency and performance, Deutelio
- Lecture Room:
- 15:00-15:30
Intersections of public and private fusion supply chains- Leveraging the European fusion supply chain, Ineustar, Fusion Europe
- Intersections between Commonwealth Fusion supply chain needs, and ITER supply chain networks and capabilities, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- 15:30-16:00
Workshop summary, IBF preview; conclusion of formal program - 16:00-16:15
Buses depart for IBF Inauguration (Marseille) and for Aix
JOIN US
The surge in private sector fusion initiatives has driven a reconsideration of how we could optimize public-private engagement. The new ITER Private Sector Fusion Engagement Project is designed to optimize that engagement. A key question for this workshop is how we could optimize collaboration on the primary remaining challenges to bring fusion to reality.
We hope you will join us for this workshop. Should you have any questions or need for information, at any time, we remain at your disposal. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
Starts: 22 April 2025, 09:00
Ends: 23 April 2025, 16:00
Europe/Paris time
ITER Headquarters, Amphitheatre
Building 72 Route de Vinon sur Verdon
13115 Saint Paul les Durance FRANCE
PSFW & IBF
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