First Joint IAEA-ITER Technical Meeting on Analysis of ITER Materials and Technologies. Preface

The first Joint IAEA-ITER Technical Meeting on Analysis of ITER Materials and Technologies was held November 23–25, 2010, in the Principality of Monaco, in conjunction with the first Monaco ITER International Fusion Energy Days. The meeting aimed to contribute to the development of a knowledge base of properties, processes, and technologies relevant to ITER structural and plasma-facing materials and components, and of the effects of energetic particles and radiation on ITER materials. The present issue of Fusion Science and Technology features papers describing some of the material that was presented and discussed at the meeting.