The Twelfth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research featured some seventy tokamak experimental papers, pertaining to every issue of tokamak physics. While previous conferences have sometimes been dominated by a single result, for example achievement of high nτ or T-values, such was not the case of the Nice meeting. Rather, this conference was characterized by a multitude of excellent scientific results on virtually all aspects of tokamak behaviour: confinement, operational limits such as density and beta MHD stability, heating, current drive and, to a lesser extent, impurity control. Taken together, these results lay a solid foundation for continued progress and future steps.
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