Jülich has won another EUROfusion Engineering Grant

The EUROfusion Engineering Grants (EEGs) aim to attract top early-career engineering talent to work on key technological challenges and develop skills that are essential to the European fusion programme.

As Europe's fusion research community, EUROfusion is highly committed to developing a workforce capable of solving the physics and engineering challenges towards a fusion power plant. The EUROfusion Engineering Grants support excellent early-career engineers as they hone their skills on key technological questions for the development of fusion energy.

This time Gunnar Schmidtmann fromForschungszentrum Jülich was successful with his proposal on

“Qualification of low-pressure plasma spraying for fusion application and design of an in-situ application usable within a fusion-relevant device”.

Future reactors will use fusion – the energy source of the stars. Reactor walls made of tungsten will contain magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Yet even tungsten can be sputtered or melted. Within the “Plasma‐Spray Project”, tungsten will be sprayed on the reactor walls “daring” their in‐situ repair for instance, using a robotic arm.