Author: United States. Department of Energy. Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
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Category : Fusion reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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This report presents a plan for the deployment of a fusion demonstration power plant within 35 years, leading to commercial application of fusion energy by mid-century. The plan is derived from the necessary features of a demonstration fusion power plant and from the time scale defined by President Bush. It identifies critical milestones, key decision points, needed major facilities and required budgets.

Author: United States. Department of Energy. Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. Panel on a Burning Plasma Program Strategy to Advance Fusion Energy
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Category : Fusion reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Author: Department of Energy (DOE)
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ISBN: 9781521433621
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Languages : en
Pages : 586

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This unique compilation of official information provides an incredibly comprehensive overview of all aspects of the worlds' quest for nuclear fusion energy, including the ambitious ITER experimental burning plasma project, U.S. fusion research and facilities, international efforts in China, Russia, South Korea, and other countries, and plans for the DEMO reactor and full-scale electrical generation plants. Because of the enormous size of this material, for reproduction in paperback format it has been divided into two parts.VOLUME 1 - Part 1: DOE Fusion Energy Sciences * Part 2: ITER Project Overview and U.S. Contribution * Part 3: The Next Generation of Fusion Energy Research (Hearing) * Part 4: Fusion Energy (GAO) * Part 5: Fusion Spinoffs: Making A Difference Today * Part 6: Report of the FESAC Subcommittee on the Priorities of the Magnetic Fusion Energy Science Program 2013 * Part 7: Report of the FESAC Subcommittee on the Prioritization of Proposed Scientific User Facilities for the Office of Science 2013 * Part 8: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Report on Opportunities for and Modes of International Collaboration in Fusion Energy Sciences Research during the ITER Era - February 2012 * Part 9: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Report on Opportunities for Fusion Materials Science and Technology Research Now and During the ITER Era February 2012 * Part 10: Report of the Burning Plasma Organization Panel on Planning for US Participation in ITER - September 3, 2009 * Part 11: Priorities, Gaps and Opportunities: Towards A Long-Range Strategic Plan For Magnetic Fusion Energy - A Report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee - October 2007VOLUME 2 - Part 11: Priorities, Gaps and Opportunities: Towards A Long-Range Strategic Plan For Magnetic Fusion Energy - A Report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee - October 2007 (conclusion) * Part 12: Report of the 2005 FESAC Facilities Panel - Characteristics and Contributions of the Three Major United States Toroidal Magnetic Fusion Facilities * Part 13: FESAC A Plan for the Development of Fusion Energy * Part 14: Report of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Burning Plasma Strategy Panel - A Burning Plasma Program Strategy To Advance Fusion Energy * Part 15: NSTX-U FY2013 Year End Report * Part 16: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Meeting Minutes * Part 17: 2014 Fusion Energy Sciences Congressional Budget Request * Part 18: 2013 Fusion Energy Sciences Congressional Budget Request * Part 19: ITER Presentations

Author: Department of Energy (DOE)
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ISBN: 9781521433584
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Languages : en
Pages : 614

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This unique compilation of official information provides an incredibly comprehensive overview of all aspects of the worlds' quest for nuclear fusion energy, including the ambitious ITER experimental burning plasma project, U.S. fusion research and facilities, international efforts in China, Russia, South Korea, and other countries, and plans for the DEMO reactor and full-scale electrical generation plants. Because of the enormous size of this material, for reproduction in paperback format it has been divided into two parts.VOLUME 1 - Part 1: DOE Fusion Energy Sciences * Part 2: ITER Project Overview and U.S. Contribution * Part 3: The Next Generation of Fusion Energy Research (Hearing) * Part 4: Fusion Energy (GAO) * Part 5: Fusion Spinoffs: Making A Difference Today * Part 6: Report of the FESAC Subcommittee on the Priorities of the Magnetic Fusion Energy Science Program 2013 * Part 7: Report of the FESAC Subcommittee on the Prioritization of Proposed Scientific User Facilities for the Office of Science 2013 * Part 8: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Report on Opportunities for and Modes of International Collaboration in Fusion Energy Sciences Research during the ITER Era - February 2012 * Part 9: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Report on Opportunities for Fusion Materials Science and Technology Research Now and During the ITER Era February 2012 * Part 10: Report of the Burning Plasma Organization Panel on Planning for US Participation in ITER - September 3, 2009 * Part 11: Priorities, Gaps and Opportunities: Towards A Long-Range Strategic Plan For Magnetic Fusion Energy - A Report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee - October 2007VOLUME 2 - Part 11: Priorities, Gaps and Opportunities: Towards A Long-Range Strategic Plan For Magnetic Fusion Energy - A Report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee - October 2007 (conclusion) * Part 12: Report of the 2005 FESAC Facilities Panel - Characteristics and Contributions of the Three Major United States Toroidal Magnetic Fusion Facilities * Part 13: FESAC A Plan for the Development of Fusion Energy * Part 14: Report of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Burning Plasma Strategy Panel - A Burning Plasma Program Strategy To Advance Fusion Energy * Part 15: NSTX-U FY2013 Year End Report * Part 16: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) Meeting Minutes * Part 17: 2014 Fusion Energy Sciences Congressional Budget Request * Part 18: 2013 Fusion Energy Sciences Congressional Budget Request * Part 19: ITER Presentations Fusion is a key element in long-term US energy plans. ITER will allow scientists to explore the physics of a burning plasma at energy densities close to that of a commercial power plant. This is a critical step towards producing and delivering electricity from fusion to the grid. Nuclear fusion occurs naturally in stars, like our sun. When hydrogen gets hot enough, the process of fusion occurs, releasing energy. On earth, producing fusion reactions by heating, compressing and confining hydrogen plasmas at 100 million degrees is a significant challenge. After years of research, scientists have learned that it is possible to create a self-heated fusion plasma and truly "bring a star to earth." Fusion has the potential to bring clean, abundant, safe energy to most of the world's populations. The fusion process produces no greenhouse gas emissions and generates no high-level radioactive waste. It is fueled by readily available resources: Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) is plentiful in water and tritium can be produced during the fusion process. Fusion could become a major contributor to the power grid for centuries to come.

Author: United States. Energy Research Advisory Board. Technical Panel on Magnetic Fusion
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Fusion is potentially an inexhaustible energy source whose exploitation re q u i res a basic understanding of high-temperature plasmas. The development of a science-based predictive capability for fusion-relevant plasmas is a challenge central to fusion energy science, in which numerical modeling has played a vital role for more than four decades. A combination of the very wide range in temporal and spatial scales, extreme anisotropy, the importance of geometric detail, and the requirement of causality which makes it impossible to parallelize over time, makes this problem one of the most challenging in computational physics. Sophisticated computational models are under development for many individual features of magnetically confined plasmas and increases in the scope and reliability of feasible simulations have been enabled by increased scientific understanding and improvements in computer technology. However, full predictive modeling of fusion plasmas will require qualitative improvements and innovations to enable cross coupling of a wider variety of physical processes and to allow solution over a larger range of space and time scales. The exponential growth of computer speed, coupled with the high cost of large-scale experimental facilities, makes an integrated fusion simulation initiative a timely and cost-effective opportunity. Worldwide progress in laboratory fusion experiments provides the basis for a recent FESAC recommendation to proceed with a burning plasma experiment (see FESAC Review of Burning Plasma Physics Report, September 2001). Such an experiment, at the frontier of the physics of complex systems, would be a huge step in establishing the potential of magnetic fusion energy to contribute to the world's energy security. An integrated simulation capability would dramatically enhance the utilization of such a facility and lead to optimization of toroidal fusion plasmas in general. This science-based predictive capability, which was cited in the FESAC integrated planning document (IPPA, 2000), represents a significant opportunity for the DOE Office of Science to further the understanding of fusion plasmas to a level unparalleled worldwide.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production
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Category : Fusion reactors
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309124751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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ITER presents the United States and its international partners with the opportunity to explore new and exciting frontiers of plasma science while bringing the promise of fusion energy closer to reality. The ITER project has garnered the commitment and will draw on the scientific potential of seven international partners, China, the European Union, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, and the United States, countries that represent more than half of the world's population. The success of ITER will depend on each partner's ability to fully engage itself in the scientific and technological challenges posed by advancing our understanding of fusion. In this book, the National Research Council assesses the current U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plan for U.S. fusion community participation in ITER, evaluates the plan's elements, and recommends appropriate goals, procedures, and metrics for consideration in the future development of the plan.

Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422399743
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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