Guest Editorial Special Issue on Electrical Discharges in Vacuum

Abstract

This Special Issue contains the expanded version of selected papers presented at the 29th International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV). The Symposium was scheduled to take place in June 2020 in Padua, Italy, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was held on September 26–30, 2021, in virtual mode. The Symposium was hosted by the Consorzio RFX, Padua, which is a research infrastructure whose mission is the research on fusion science, implemented through the participation to the European Fusion Program, through the development and exploitation of RFX—the largest Reversed Field Pinch Fusion machine—and through the development and exploitation of the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF)—the prototype of the Neutral Beam Injectors for ITER. Members of the Consorzio RFX are the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the National Agency for Energy and Sustainable Development (ENEA), the National Institute on Nuclear Physics (INFN), and Padova University. The Conference was attended remotely by 167 participants from 17 different countries.