Travel to Germany to attend meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Council. Foreign trip report, March 13--18, 1993
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I attended the March 15--17 TAC meeting at the Garching ITER Co-Center (Garching, Germany) on behalf of the US, as one of three designated US experts to advise TAC members. Three of my four primary objectives for the meeting were met, namely establish TAC support for safety objectives and goals, discourage TAC from prohibiting or dictating any material choices, and improve communication with both JCT and TAC personnel. The fourth objective, establishing TAC support for more aggressive (but higher potential performance) in-vessel material choices (ferritic steel., titanium., lithium, helium coolant) was not met to my satisfaction. There was limited TAC support for looking at such options but the TAC report shows preference for options (austenitic steel, water) that I believe offer lower performance and, indeed, very low chance of meeting ITER technology missions of 3 MW-yr/m(sup 2) fluence, demonstrating technologies for DEMO, and demonstrating fusion safety and environmental potential.
Travel to Germany to attend meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Council. Foreign trip report, March 13--18, 1993