Information of Broader Approach activities, 42

Ohira, Shigeru

This time, the Project Committees of IFERC and IFMIF/EVEDA (both held on 21, 22th of March) and the recent status of the HPC were reported. In the IFERC Project Committee, the Annual Report 2012 of IFERC project was reviewed and confirmed including researches on safety of the DEMO reactor. Also revision of the Project Plan reflecting a new proposal to enhance the DEMO design activity with the installation of additional equipment based on the recommendations from the peer review on the DEMO R&D conducted in 2012. In IFMIF project committee meeting, we confirmed the annual report on the IFMIF/EVEDA project, including the state of injector of the IFMIF prototype accelerator and Li test loop achieving the maximum flow rate 20m/s and discussed the revision of the project plan reflecting it and summarized the recommendations for the Steering Committee. For the HPC, which keeps high operating ratio and high utilization factor, user trainings were held at Kyoto University and JAEA.