The IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop Series: 2012–2021 report

Abstract

The IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop series was initiated to be the reference forum to debate, evaluate and establish the next steps to be taken within the international fusion community to deliver fusion as a reliable source of clean energy. To enable this, it provides a unique frame where the discussion and analysis of the progress and findings of the various DEMO programmes and not only the presentation of results are the major goals. More recently, due to the construction development of ITER, the Workshop has also provided a forum to bring together the fusion community and industry. This is an important development for DEMO programmes, which will be more reliant on industry given their focus on devices proximate to a Fusion Power Plant (FPP). In this paper a summary of all editions of this workshop (2012 -2013- 2015 – 2016 – 2018 – 2019) up to 2021 are summarised. Topics addressed are listed and findings and open questions pointed out for each edition.