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progress report
2010
Anniversary
50 th Anniversary EURATOM–ENEA Association on Fusion
Spurred by Edoardo Amaldi and with the collaboration of Enrico Persico and Franco Rasetti, starting in 1957
Bruno Brunelli had gathered a small group of scientists of CNEN (today ENEA) and of Euratom who began
a research activity on plasma physics and on problems related to thermonuclear fusion at the Institute of
Physics of the University of Rome. In 1960 this activity was transferred to the CNEN Research Centre in
Frascati where a new building was erected for the new Laboratorio Gas Ionizzati. The contract of association
Euratom–CNEN was signed in the same year in attachment to the preceding French contract of association
Euratom–CEA. In this way the Italian Fusion Program was started.
After 50 years, the past and present leading actors of fusion research have gathered on 8 July 2010 at ENEA
Centre in Frascati to celebrate this important anniversary. Under–secretary of State – Ministry of Economic
Development, Stefano Saglia, ENEA Commissioner, Giovanni Lelli, and Euratom Director, Octavi Quintana
Trias, attended the ceremony. In their addresses they emphasized the continuously increasing role, both in
fusion physics and technology, played by Italy in the
European Fusion Program, thanks to strong
determination and capability to adapt to the new
challenges.
The volume describing the activities carried out by
EURATOM–ENEA, written in the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the Association
Speeches were delivered by the Italian
representative in CCE–FU, Romano Toschi, the
EFDA leader Francesco Romanelli, the Chairman
of the Governing Board of Fusion for Energy,
Carlos Varandas, the Head of ITER Department
of Fusion for Energy, Maurizio Gasparotto, the
President of Consorzio RFX, Giorgio Rostagni, the
Director of Istituto di Fisica del Plasma – CNR,
Maurizio Lontano, and by the Director of ENEA
Fusion Technical Unit, Aldo Pizzuto. Looking over
the past 50 years, at the experiments that have
marked the more significant and outstanding results
obtained, they testified how fusion science has
achieved its success through the ability to evolve
from pure research activity confined in few
laboratories, into a complex system involving
physics, technology and engineering research, and
close collaboration also with university and
industrial worlds. Thanks to this capability, it has
been possible to face increasingly demanding
challenges, such as FT, FTU and RFX, and support