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FUSION EXPO - Harnessing the energy of the sun

An itinerant exhibition on Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Research, "FUSION EXPO - Harnessing the energy of the sun", is presently on tour throughout Europe. The exhibition, which started during the summer of 1993, was produced by the Euratom-Suisse Association with financial...

23 August 1997 - 23 August 1997
Belgium
An itinerant exhibition on Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Research, "FUSION EXPO - Harnessing the energy of the sun", is presently on tour throughout Europe. The exhibition, which started during the summer of 1993, was produced by the Euratom-Suisse Association with financial support from the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

FUSION EXPO features some 75 panels and a variety of multimedia displays, videos, experimental objects and models. Documentation and photographs come from Euratom laboratories, as well as from laboratories around the world working in the field of magnetic or inertial confinement fusion.

Controlled thermonuclear fusion is one of the most promising energy options for the 21st century. Fusion is the energy which makes the sun and stars shine. The exhibition is divided into four sections:

- How young stars burn their fuels;
- How charged particles are confined by magnetic fields;
- A "keep in touch" activity in the inertial confinement fusion;
- Reactor and environment aspects.

FUSION EXPO is presently in G"teborg, Sweden, where it will stay until 8 October 1997. Forthcoming venues are as follows:

- Brussels, Belgium: 22 October to 30 November 1997;
- Rome, Italy: 15 January to 28 February 1998;
- Barcelona, Spain: March/April 1998;
- Lisbon, Portugal: May/August 1998;
- Copenhagen/Roskilde, Denmark: September/October 1998.
Information on FUSION EXPO is available on the EUROPA WWW server at:

http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg12/fusion/expo.html

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