The Department of Energy's Restructured Fusion Energy Sciences Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 682
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 682
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-06-07
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0309073456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The purpose of this assessment of the fusion energy sciences program of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science is to evaluate the quality of the research program and to provide guidance for the future program strategy aimed at strengthening the research component of the program. The committee focused its review of the fusion program on magnetic confinement, or magnetic fusion energy (MFE), and touched only briefly on inertial fusion energy (IFE), because MFE-relevant research accounts for roughly 95 percent of the funding in the Office of Science's fusion program. Unless otherwise noted, all references to fusion in this report should be assumed to refer to magnetic fusion. Fusion research carried out in the United States under the sponsorship of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) has made remarkable strides over the years and recently passed several important milestones. For example, weakly burning plasmas with temperatures greatly exceeding those on the surface of the Sun have been created and diagnosed. Significant progress has been made in understanding and controlling instabilities and turbulence in plasma fusion experiments, thereby facilitating improved plasma confinement-remotely controlling turbulence in a 100-million-degree medium is a premier scientific achievement by any measure. Theory and modeling are now able to provide useful insights into instabilities and to guide experiments. Experiments and associated diagnostics are now able to extract enough information about the processes occurring in high-temperature plasmas to guide further developments in theory and modeling. Many of the major experimental and theoretical tools that have been developed are now converging to produce a qualitative change in the program's approach to scientific discovery. The U.S. program has traditionally been an important source of innovation and discovery for the international fusion energy effort. The goal of understanding at a fundamental level the physical processes governing observed plasma behavior has been a distinguishing feature of the program.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009-02-21
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0309124751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0309487439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward achieving fusion energy. With ITER scheduled to go online within a decade and demonstrate controlled fusion ten years later, now is the right time for the United States to develop plans to benefit from its investment in burning plasma research and take steps to develop fusion electricity for the nation's future energy needs. At the request of the Department of Energy, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a committee to develop a strategic plan for U.S. fusion research. The final report's two main recommendations are: (1) The United States should remain an ITER partner as the most cost-effective way to gain experience with a burning plasma at the scale of a power plant. (2) The United States should start a national program of accompanying research and technology leading to the construction of a compact pilot plant that produces electricity from fusion at the lowest possible capital cost.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 88
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781422399743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1997-04-24
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 0309057787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1384
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