About  the site and

my motivation to do it

    The site started as a place to show some of my calculations, codes and research in fusion engineering and now it is the home page of UST_1, a very small stellarator. So the site appears as series of "web publications" more than a structured explanation of the device.

    Presently the site is not growing due to my work in fusion in the 'National Fusion Laboratory', CIEMAT, Spain.

   From the beginning about four years ago to now, I learned about many devices and techniques and the "publications" have improved in quality and accuracy.  Occasionally I notice some inaccuracies that I leave as they were though, like in any other traditional publication.

   I started studying fusion engineering four years ago so I am a beginner in this exciting field, even if I have designed and built an operative stellarator. Fusion  is the never-ending research due to its extremely complex and varied problems involved. ITER , W7-X (Europe-Germany), other new superconductor devices and CTF (spherical tokamaks) will show the better paths to try to build a viable industrial reactor.

   I hope the site can be useful for somebody.

* If it is helpful for you, please send an e-mail to me commenting something.

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   Before starting in fusion R&D  I mainly developed innovative electromechanical devices having notable success.

   Presently I am developing the Remote Handling system for IFMIF (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility) and coordinating several ITER Remote Handling tasks in LNF, CIEMAT, Spain. IFMIF is a facility to test and characterise the materials for the future fusion reactors, especially DEMO.  ITER is  an international R&D project that aims to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.

Last updated  03-02-2008