1. WELCOME 4th IAEA Technical Meeting on Spherical Tori
14th International Workshop on Spherical Torus
ENEA, Frascati, Roma, Italy
October 7-10, 2008
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency

2. 43 delegates representing 11 Countries and 2 I.O.
The meeting will present 29 oral contributions, a summary session plus a poster session.
TOPICS
A. Plasma Science (experiment and/or theory-computation)
B. Engineering and Technology
C. Plasma Diagnostics
D. Upcoming research plans
E. Designs concepts and issues for next-stage experiments and facilities
F. Concepts for future DEMO and power plants

3. The IAEA Activities on Fusion

4. DG, Mr. El Baradei
Director General
6 DEPARTMENTS
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Sciences & Applications
DDG, Mr. Sokolov
DDG, Mr. Burkart
5 DIVISIONS
Physical & Chemical Sciences
DIV-DIR, Mr. Ramamoorthy
4 SECTIONS
Physics
Section Head, Mr. Mank
Atomic & Nuclear Data
Section Head, Mr. Nichols
research reactors
accelerators
Demining/illicit materials
fusion

5. Promoting Science & Technology
IAEA ACTIVITIES in FUSION
Technical Meetings (TM)
Coordinated Research Projects (CRP)
Research Coordination Meetings (RCM)
Technical Cooperation Projects (TC)
Colaboration with ICTP (schools, JEs)
Conferences (Organiser/Sponsor) (Conf)
Consultancy Meetings (CM)
INFORMATION FOSTERING
Nuclear Fusion Journal,Technical Documents, Proceedings, World Survey
Atomic and Molecular Databases for Fusion
ITER activities: Cooperation Agreement
TOPICAL AREAS on FUSION
Magnetic Confinement
Inertial Confinement
Dense Magnetized Plasmas
ADVISORY GROUPS
International Fusion Research Council (IFRC-1972)
IFRC sub-committee for Atomic & Nuclear Data

6. Regular Technical Meeting Series
Spherical Tori
Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellerators
Negative Ion based Neutral Beam Injectors
Research Using Small Fusion Devices
First Generation of Fusion Power Plants: Design and Technology
Safety of Fusion Power Plants
ECRH Physics and Technology for ITER (Fusion Devices)
Physics and technology of IFE Targets and Chambers
Control, data acquisition and remote participation for fusion research
Steady State operation of magnetic fusion devices
H-mode Physics and transport Barriers
Energetic particles in magnetic confinement systems
Theory of Plasma Instabilities

7. Institutional Cooperation
(ITER, EFDA, IEA, etc)
STREAMLINE
Generate R&D Requests
Select R&D Activities
Coordinate Research/
Capacity Improvement
Research Results
Devices: Small, Medium, Large
FPP Science & Technology
Plasma Physics
Plasma/Wall
Fusion Technology
Control
Neutronics
Materials
Etc…
Tokamaks & DMP & IFE
Turbulence
Transport
Confinement
Equilibrium-Stability
Edge Physics
Edge Control
Diagnostics
Remote Participation
Materials
Etc…
D-D D-T neutron diagnostics
fusion products diagnostics
cross-calibration of MCNP codes
materials under transient plasma and neutron loads
plasma facing materials
lithium blanket concepts
Etc…
Capacity
Building
Requests
Improved Technology and Partnership