Conference
and Lecture Tour of
From
September –October 2009
by
Prof Dr Lee Sing & Prof Dr Saw Sor Heoh
in collaboration with the Institute for
Plasma Focus Study (IPFS),
(This article is a
photo record of the conference and lecture tour.)
Professor Dr Lee
Sing and Professor Dr Saw Sor Heoh
were invited by the Turkish Science and Research Foundation to participate in a
world-first combined Nuclear and Renewable Energy Conference, to promote discussion
and awareness of non-fossil fuels as innovative, sustainable and
environmentally friendly energy solutions.
Prof Dr Lee Sing
served in the Scientific and Consultative Committees (Photo 1) and gave the first Keynote Address on Fusion
Energy and the Plasma Focus while Prof Dr Saw Sor
Heoh presented
the invited paper Scaling the Plasma Focus for Fusion Energy Consideratons in the afternoon session. The role
of nuclear fusion energy was emphasized, as a limitless clean energy, which in
the time frame of modern human civilization is nearing implementation, with the
unprecedented international scientific and political collaboration in the ITER
(International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project. Other smaller
nuclear fusion projects also contribute to important databases necessary for
the success of harnessing fusion energy; moreover our group has developed an
internationally accepted computer code which has provided ground-breaking
insights into plasma focus fusion devices.
The Conference was
officiated by the Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz and was well-covered by the local media because of
the current debate in Turkey on nuclear energy and other energy issues
affecting the world and Turkey. (See Photos 1 & 2).
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On the second day
of the Conference, Prof Dr Lee Sing and the Conference Organizing Chairman,
Prof Dr Mehmet Sahin, were
interviewed live on world energy issues by Turkish National TV, TRT Turk for a
30 minute ‘MASA’ programme (Photos 3-5). Prof Lee Sing
spoke passionately on nuclear fusion energy as a safe, clean, limitless source
of energy that will provide Mankind with all energy needs for millions of
years, a role which cannot be undertaken in the long term by any other
presently foreseeable sources of energy.
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Following the
Conference, Prof Dr Lee Sing and Prof Dr Saw Sor Heoh jointly presented a series of talks under the Special
Scientific Programme arranged by the Turkish Science
& Research Foundation (TUBAV) to promote the research and awareness of
nuclear fusion energy.
The first joint
talk was given to scientists, researchers and engineers on October 1 at the
Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) Saraykoy Nuclear
Research Training Center on Latest Trends
in Plasma Focus Studies. A meeting with the Director and Department Heads
of the Center (Photo 6) was followed by a visit to the Saraykoy
Plasma Focus Laboratory where Prof Lee & Prof Saw advised the Saraykoy Team on what steps needed to be taken to upgrade
their ODAK-3K focus so that it would perform more efficiently. (Photo 7).
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The second joint
talk was given to scientists and top science administrators at the Turkish
Science and Research Foundation (TUBAV) on Energy
Gain from Thermonuclear Fusion. This was followed by an intense and lively
discussion, sometimes in Turkish, on the safety, problems and time scale of the
international nuclear fusion research efforts. (Photos 8-10).
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8
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Highlight of the
Turkish Scientific Programme Lecture Tour was the
conferment by the Turkish Science and Research Foundation (TUBAV) of Honorary
Life Membership of Turkish Science and Research Foundation (TUBAV) to Prof Dr
Lee Sing and to Prof Dr Saw Sor Heoh;
a rare and distinctive honour. (Photos 11-13).
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The third joint
talk was given (Photos 14-15) at Gazi University,
Technical Education Faculty, on Plasma
Focus Fusion Devices. (Photo 16).
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This series of
talks has been successful to generate greater interest in nuclear fusion
energy, and contribute to promote greater understanding and interest in this
area and strengthen collaborations between IPFS, INTI-UC,
NTU/NIE and TUBAV, TAEK and the energy
community in
A visit was also made to
The Dolapdere
Campus has functional, attractive design of building in steel. The building
won the 2003 European steel building design award. The
A lunch was hosted
by Rector Prof Dr Halil M Guven
followed by a meeting with
Rector Prof Guven also informed that Bilgi
University planned to launch a new Energy Engineering programme
and that the proposed innovative programme needed an
advanced topic like Nuclear Fusion Energy to spearhead the programme.
Our Lecture Tour of
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