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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.