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Foreword

  The 17th International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Energy Conference was held in Yokohama, Japan, 19-24 October 1999. This series of meetings, which began in 1961, has been held biennially since 1974. In addition to these biennial conferences, the IAEA organizes co-ordinated research projects, technical committee meetings, advisory group meetings and consultants meetings on fusion research topics. The objectives of the IAEA activities related to fusion research are to:

• Promote fusion energy development and worldwide collaboration, such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER);
• Support developing Member State activities in fusion research;
• Emphasize the safety and environmental advantages of fusion energy;
• Encourage the utilization of plasmas and fusion technology in industry.

This 6-days conference, which was attended by 835 participants from over thirty countries and two international organizations, was organized by the IAEA in cooperation with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), to which the IAEA wishes to express its gratitude. More than 340 papers plus 5 summary talks were presented in 23 oral and 8 poster sessions on magnetic confinement experiments, inertial fusion energy, plasma heating and current drive, ITER engineering design activities, magnetic confinement theory, innovative concepts and fusion technology. The opening session was designated the Artsimovich-Kadomtsev Memorial Session, in honor of Academicians L. A. Artsimovich and B. B. Kadomtsev.

This is the first time that the proceedings of the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference are being published as an IAEA CD-ROM and distributed free to all participants. Difficulties associated with electronic file transmission from authors to the IAEA caused a delay in this publication and omission of some papers. For future conferences in this series it is planned to publish only CD-ROMs.
 

Technical Remarks from the Producers

This is the first time that the proceedings of the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference are being published as an IAEA CD-ROM in addition to a limited number of paper copies of the proceedings. PDF (Portable Document Format) was chosen as document format due to the availability of a number of free PDF viewers.

Difficulties associated with electronic file transmission from authors to the IAEA caused a delay in this publication. In total 351 manuscripts have been expected (342 regular, 5 summary and 4 post deadline papers). 283 papers have been received in electronic form as correct PDF files (or could be repaired) or as PostScript files that could be converted to PDF. 50 papers have not been received and 18 papers have been received in unreadable formats. These papers are not part of the CD-ROM, their titles and authors do not appear in the sessions nor in the index lists. The CD-ROM contains a few more files than the paper copies of the proceedings due to late submission of correct PDF files.

The contributions are not refereed, they were used as provided by the authors with the exception of some layout changes. Text and figures of the papers may appear on the screen a bit fuzzy but they do print correctly (please set your printer to A4 format). Some few papers may print rather slow.

We would like to thank all authors of submitted papers for their patience and collaboration.
 

Editorial Note

This publication has been prepared from the original material as submitted by the authors. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the IAEA, the governments of the nominating Member States or the nominating organizations. The use of particular designations of countries or territories does not imply any judgement by the publisher, the IAEA, as to the legal status of such countries or territories, of their authorities and institutions or of the delimitation of their boundaries. The mention of names of specific companies or products (whether or not indicated as registered) does not imply any intention to infringe proprietary rights, nor should it be construed as an endorsement or recommendation on the part of the IAEA. The authors are responsible for having obtained the necessary permission for the IAEA to reproduce, translate or use material from sources already protected by copyrights.