Research Using Small Tokamaks (Report on the IAEA Technical Committee Meeting, Arlington, VA, United States of America, 27–29 September 1990)

In the week before the 13th IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research in Washington, DC, 45 participants from 16 nations gathered in Arlington, VA, for a three day meeting on Research Using Small Tokamaks under the chairmanship of D. Banner (IAEA). One of the aims of this series of meetings is to provide a forum for countries with small or developing tokamak programmes to present their recent results and, perhaps more importantly, to exchange ideas. There are usually some representatives from the more advanced fusion programmes, for example from some of the several small tokamaks just starting operation in the USA. The large number of small tokamaks represented is listed in Table I. There are, of course, many other devices that were not represented at this meeting. Most of the papers were on experimental and theoretical programmes developed within a single laboratory, but there were some co-operative experiments between small and large laboratories. Each talk was accompanied by a written paper which will appear, as usual, in an IAEA Technical Document.