Second Research Coordination Meeting of the Beryllium Surfaces CRP

Meeting Report

The 2nd Research Coordination Meeting of the CRP on Data for Erosion and Tritium Retention in Beryllium Plasma-Facing Materials was held from 18 – 19 August 2014 at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria. The Scientific Secretary was Bastiaan BRAAMS (Unit Head, Atomic and Molecular Data Unit, IAEA).

Beryllium Surfaces CRP: RCM2 group photo

Agenda

Monday, 18 August 2014

09:00 – 09:15Robin FORREST, Bastiaan BRAAMS: Welcome
Session 1: PISCES
09:15 – 12:00Russell DOERNER (Center for Energy Research, UCSD, United States of America)
Plasma interactions with beryllium surfaces
[presentation (pdf: 4.2 MB)]
12:00 – 13:30Lunch
Session 2: Other experiments
13:30 – 14:30Martin KÖPPEN
Multi-method approach towards a detailed understanding of beryllium for fusion
[presentation (pdf: 2.9 MB)]
14:30 – 15:30Dmitriy BORODIN (Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany)
Development of models for plasma interactions with beryllium on the basis of dedicated experiments
15:30 – 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00Wolfgang JACOB (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)
Beryllium-related PSI experiments in IPP Garching
[presentation (pdf: 1.9 MB)]
19:00 – 21:00Social Dinner

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Session 3: Computations
09:00 – 10:00Kai NORDLUND (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Review of molecular dynamics simulations of plasma interactions with Be-containing fusion reactor materials
[presentation (pdf: 2.2 MB)]
10:00 – 10:45Stephan IRLE (Nagoya University, Japan)
Progress towards accurate quantum chemical molecular dynamics simulations of plasma interactions with beryllium surfaces
[presentation (pdf: 2.7 MB)]
10:45 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30Michael PROBST (Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
Activities at Innsbruck within the beryllium CRP 2013-2014
[presentation (pdf: 880.1 KB)]
Presentation given remotely
11:30 – 12:00Bastiaan BRAAMS (IAEA)
Preliminary status report (and start of discussion)
[presentation (pdf: 230.6 KB)]
12:00 – 13:30Lunch
Session 4: Discussion
13:30 – 16:00Discussion (all participants): Review of data needs and work plan through 2016

Presentations

Dmitriy BORODIN (Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany)
Development of models for plasma interactions with beryllium on the basis of dedicated experiments

Bastiaan BRAAMS (Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Netherlands)
Preliminary status report (and start of discussion)
[presentation (pdf: 230.6 KB)]

Russell DOERNER (Center for Energy Research, UCSD, United States of America)
Plasma interactions with beryllium surfaces
[presentation (pdf: 4.2 MB)]

Stephan IRLE (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America)
Progress towards accurate quantum chemical molecular dynamics simulations of plasma interactions with beryllium surfaces
[presentation (pdf: 2.7 MB)]

Wolfgang JACOB (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)
Beryllium-related PSI experiments in IPP Garching
[presentation (pdf: 1.9 MB)]

Martin KÖPPEN
Multi-method approach towards a detailed understanding of beryllium for fusion
[presentation (pdf: 2.9 MB)]

Kai NORDLUND (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Review of molecular dynamics simulations of plasma interactions with Be-containing fusion reactor materials
[presentation (pdf: 2.2 MB)]

Michael PROBST (Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
Activities at Innsbruck within the beryllium CRP 2013-2014
[presentation (pdf: 880.1 KB)]
Presentation given remotely