Seminare und Vorträge 2024
Übersicht über alle zukünftigen IPP-Seminare, -Kolloquien und Vorträge

Übersicht über alle zukünftigen IPP-Seminare, -Kolloquien und Vorträge


Gastgeber: IPP

Overview of status of Fusion Technology Development and Deployment

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 26.04.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragende: Dr. Sehila M. Gonzalez de Vicente
  • Sehila M. Gonzalez de Vicente holds a PhD in in Materials Physics by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and a MBA by the EOI Business School. She has 20 years of experience in fusion technologies and materials and is currently the Global Director of the Fusion Energy programme at Clean Air Task Force. Previously she was working at the International Atomic Energy Agency as Nuclear Fusion Physicist for more than 8 years. Before joining IAEA, she was the Responsible Officer of the Fusion Materials development programme at EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement) / Eurofusion, in Garching (Germany). In addition, she has been appointed chair of the Project Committee of the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC) project between Europe and Japan as well as vice chair of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) scientific advisory board in the research field of Energy. She has been chair of the 9th Annual Assessment of Fusion for Energy, member of the UK’s Fusion Technical Advisory Group, member of the Review Committee for the European Spallation Source Re-baseline Review as well as member of the IFMIF-DONES España Technical Advisory Committee. She is co-editor and contributing author of the book Fundamentals of Magnetic Fusion Technology. She is also the Chair of the Women in Fusion Group.
  • Ort: IPP
  • Raum: Zoom Meeting
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: karl.krieger@ipp.mpg.de
Recent years have seen a significant, quickly accelerating dynamic on the path towards making fusion a real option to meet net zero carbon emissions targets. International and national Government-funded programs are assisting the development of fusion technologies with a longer-term deployment window, with private fusion technology developers are focused on the commercialization of fusion over the next decade. Governments are establishing enabling programs to help progress these enterprises in parallel to the traditional public R&D programs. The technological development of fusion spans the three areas: (i) maturing fusion science, (ii) new enabling technologies (iii) private investment in fusion.Fusion has already been demonstrated on a small scale, with a noted recent energy breakeven obtained with laser based inertial fusion at LLNL in December 2022, with the expected scaling up in the next few years lead by the private sector’s demonstration machines. It is the scaling up of the process that presents the key challenge to the commercialization of fusion technology, which require facilities reviewed in this webinar There is a significant gap in the availability of engineering data on the effects of intense fluxes of high energy neutrons on materials and components, a gap that both public and private programs must address. International cooperation and access to facilities, to enable their integration into the overall international effort, to help identify the optimum technological choices, will define the success of fusion as a power-generating option. Regulatory uncertainty and standardization also need to be addressed, where the development of global codes and standards, coupled with the harmonization of regulations, is a necessary requirement for the deployment of fusion as a viable energy source.The international cooperation and access to worldwide facilities, as well as integral planning of how a particular facility is fitting in a structured programme to obtain results that allow to make optimum choices is of paramount importance to have a real progress in Fusion deployment. [mehr]

Aspects and problems of tritium in the biosphere

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 07.06.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Clemens Walther
  • Clemens Walther is Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany and Head of the Institute of Radioecology and Radiation Protection. He is president of the German-Swiss Society for Radiation Protection and Head of the Steering Board of the Competence Center Radiation Research (KVSF). Since 2015 he is a member of the German Commission for Radiation Protection. Prof. Walther’s past appointments include being Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (2019–2021), Chair of the Nuclear Chemistry Section of the German Chemical Society (2019-2022), Head of the European Network on Nuclear and Radiochemistry Education and Training (2016–2022), Member of the extended governing board of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS) (2012–2015) and Head of the mass spectrometry division of the German Physical Society (DPG) (2012–2015).
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: karl.krieger@ipp.mpg.de
Tritium is a natural cosmogenic nuclide and omnipresent in natural waterbodys. However, man made nuclear activities have strongly increased the global inventory. The talk will cover natural and anthropogenic sources, the radioecological modelling of tritium migration in the environment and dose assessment to humans. Tritium will be compared to other radionuclides with respect to peculiarities of uptake and biological half life in the human body. Specific damage to tissue is rather low, due to its limited beta decay energy. This leads to high exemption limits for handling and high specific activities for clearance and discharge during the operation of nuclear facilities. Regulatory limits and dose coefficients as suggested by WHO, IAEA and ICRP as well as German legislation are discussed. Finally, the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daichi site will radiologically be set into perspective. [mehr]

HEPP-Workshop "Good Scientific Practice"

HEPP Seminar
  • Datum: 12.12.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende(r): Dr. Peter Schröder
  • Dr. Peter Schröder, Düsseldorf, is a biologist and IPMA-certified project manager. After working in the field of biomedical fundamental research and application-oriented development he became self-employed with “brain4hire” in 2011. He has authored numerous scientific publications, has long-standing experience in teaching science, and is an experienced trainer of soft skills.
  • Ort: virtual
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: hepp@ipp.mpg.de
Plagiarism and falsification of data by researchers have been in the news repeatedly over recent years. The internet allows knowledge to become a mobile and easily re-packaged good. Even though deliberate academic misconduct is not representative, good scientific practice presents a series of difficult questions, and nagging problems for researchers and accidental breaches can happen. [mehr]
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