Remote Participation at JET from DRFC Cadarache

The DRFC at the CEA/Cadarache has participated in the EFDA-JET Programme via the Task Agreement for Profile Control Studies in 1999 and via the EFDA-JET agreement in 2000. Several physicists have been seconded to Culham to work JET and many others have participated in the program ‘at distance’. This task has necessitated careful consideration of working methods, often with ‘ad-hoc’ remote working solutions, but has led to a clear identification of the technical needs for Remote Participation (RP) for the new European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA). We have contributed substantial input into the working groups evaluating the technical needs of RP.