Second US-Japan workshop on high magnetic field superconducting materials for magnetic fusion: San Diego, USA, 23–27 May 1983

✍ Scribed by M. Suenaga

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 234 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-2275
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-2275(83)90205-9

✦ Synopsis

This was the second workshop on high-field superconductors which was held as a part of the US-Japan collaboration on magnetic fusion energy. The first workshop took place in Tokyo, Japan, in March 1980. These workshops are held primarily to exchange and discuss new and interesting results in research and development of superconducting materials, with particular emphasis on materials which show promise for construction of magnets to produce high magnetic fields for fusion. However, a number of papers were presented discussing the results of construction and tests, or designs and plans for high-field magnets. Also, as a part of the second workshop, visits to General Dynamics, General Atomic, Teledyne-Wah Chang, Albany (TWCA), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) were made by the participants to observe construction of large superconducting magnets and fabrication of Nb and Nb alloys. Of the fifty participants at this meeting sixteen were from Japan. The Japanese were nearly equally divided between those from industries and those from universities or National Laboratories. The workshop was generally informal, and most participants thought it to be worthwhile despite its taking place only five months after the last Applied Superconductivity Conference. Some interesting observations regarding general aspects of the workshop can be made: Eight Japanese and one US industrial representatives made presentations on their developments on superconducting wires. Several representatives from US National Laboratories or Universities presented results on conductors, manufactured by TWCA.