Showing papers by "R.D. Stambaugh published in 2001"
TL;DR: A major upgrade of the DIII-D divertor, with the goal of enhancing impurity and density control and increasing the thermal pulse length limit of advanced tokamak (AT) plasmas has been successfully completed and commissioned.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Fusion Development Facility (FDF), a 13-MA volume neutron source and fusion materials and component test facility, is described and the programmatic means by which the mostly not-yet-available 'critical technologies' need for FDF can be realized by 2015, when high performance operation could first commence, are suggested.
Abstract: Parameters and physics and technology performance of the Fusion Development Facility (FDF), a 13-MA volume neutron source and fusion materials and component test facility are described and plasma and nuclear technology development requirements summarized. The programmatic means by which the mostly not-yet-available 'critical technologies' need for FDF can be realized by 2015, when high-performance operation could first commence, are suggested. Given the timely availability of these critical enabling technologies', an iterative 15-year test and development program for attaining reactor-qualified materials and technologies then becomes possible.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison1, University of California, San Diego2, General Atomics3, University of Texas at Austin4, University of Rochester5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology6, University of Maryland, College Park7, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory8, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory9, University of Washington10, United States Naval Research Laboratory11, Columbia University12, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory13, Oak Ridge National Laboratory14, University of California, Los Angeles15, University of Alaska Fairbanks16, Los Alamos National Laboratory17
TL;DR: A strategy to enable the United States to proceed with this crucial next step in fusion energy science, constructed with awareness that the burning plasma program is only one major component in a comprehensive development plan for fusion energy.
Abstract: This panel was set up by the U.S. Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee in response to a request from the department to prepare a strategy for the study of burning fusion plasmas. Experimental study of a burning plasma has long been a goal of the U.S. science-based fusion energy program. There is an overwhelming consensus among fusion scientists that we are now ready scientifically, and have the full technical capability, to embark on this step. The fusion community is prepared to construct a facility that will allow us to produce this new plasma state in the laboratory, uncover the new physics associated with the fusion burn, and develop and test new technology essential for fusion power. Given this background, the panel has produced a strategy to enable the United States to proceed with this crucial next step in fusion energy science. The strategy was constructed with awareness that the burning plasma program is only one major component in a comprehensive development plan for fusion energy. A strong core science and technology program focused on fundamental understanding, confinement configuration optimization, and the development of plasma and fusion technologies essential to the realization of fusion energy. The core program will also be essential to the successful guidance and exploitation of the burning plasma program, providing the necessary knowledge base and scientific workforce.
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