ITPA Meeting report, 23

Kawano, Yasunori; Mase, Atsushi*; Sasao, Mamiko*; Kawahata, Kazuo*; Kusama, Yoshinori

The 14th meeting on ITPA topical group on Diagnostics was held for 14-18 April 2008 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. The number of participants was sixty-three (JA: 9, CN: 2, EU: 42, US: 2, RF: 1, KO: 1, ITER Organization: 6). Recent activities of Specialist working groups on high priority areas for ITER diagnostics and progress in ITER participating parties for developments of fusion plasma diagnostics were presented and discussed. A special session was dedicated to discuss about the effects of reflection on vacuum vessel wall to optical diagnostics. Outline of the presentations and discussions at the meeting is reported here.