The 2001 US-Japan Workshop on High Heat Flux Components and Plasma Surface Interactions for Next Fusion Devices was held on December 3-6, 2001 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California.  Presentations from this meeting are posted on this website.

 
Presentations

Final Conference Agenda 
  Conference Website

Our long-standing annual workshop is hosted in alternate years by the US or Japan under the US-Japan Bilateral Agreement.  In Japan the title is The Japan-US Workshop on High Heat Flux Components and Plasma Surface Interactions for Next Fusion Devices.  

In our workshops, participants from Japan and the US and a few guests from Europe and Russia typically meet for 3-4 days to discuss ongoing work.  The co-chairs of the workshop (given below) arrange the participation and agenda.  A proceedings is issued in the form of a compilation of the presentations.

We typically focus on recent and ongoing experimental work on high heat flux components and plasma surface interactions.  The format is casual so that ongoing progress and problems can be discussed without the need of a finished publication.  The 2001 workshrop had as its major theme plasma facing technology for burning and steady state plasmas.  The agenda included brief summaries of some recent meetings, recent results on plasma edge studies and the behavior of plasma facing components in DIII-D, NSTX, LHD, JT-60 and TRIAM, work on liquid metal high heat flux components and plasma-surface studies. 

Co-chairs for the 2001 meeting were:
 
 Dr. Richard Nygren                   Prof. Nobuaki Noda
Sandia National Laboratories      National Institute for Fusion Science