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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
D. V. Bartlett
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 2 | February 2008 | Pages 27-36
Technical Paper | Introduction | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1688
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Fusion has the potential to make a major contribution to the realisation of a sustainable and secure energy supply for the EU a few decades from now, with the international project ITER being the major step in the progress towards this goal. The realisation of ITER therefore lies at the heart of the present EU fusion research strategy, and it will be accompanied by a strong and focused European R&D programme to prepare for its exploitation and to develop the technologies and knowledge base that will be needed during its operation and beyond.This paper describes the context of European fusion research and the unique organisational character of the programme. Current activities under the Seventh Euratom Framework Programme, including developments concerning ITER, are summarized
