DIII-D's role as a national user facility in enabling the commercialization of fusion energy
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The path to fusion in the United States requires partnership between public and private sector. While the private sector provides the vigor to take some of the major steps necessary, there is a depth of expertise and capability in the public sector that is vital to resolving feasible approaches. As an open national user facility, DIII-D provides a crucial testbed to develop the required new technologies and approaches in relevant conditions. It has unparalleled potential to meet this challenge, thanks to its extreme flexibility and world leading diagnostics. This provides a basis to rapidly develop solutions that project to future reactors with confidence. The program has thus been redeveloped to enable public and private sector engagement and testing of new concepts. A new technology program has been launched to resolve plasma interacting technologies. With modest heating upgrades, the facility can confront the crucial “Integrated Tokamak Exhaust and Performance” gap, to resolve core, exhaust and technology solutions together. The device is also being redeveloped as a training facility, with dedicated student run time, a mentorship program, and open access to all opportunity roles, part of wider efforts to diversify and open pathways through inclusion, access, and equity. This exciting agenda is enabling scientists and technology researchers to pioneer the solutions needed for a Fusion Pilot Plant (FPP) and ITER this decade. As a national user facility, DIII D has singular potential to provide the tools, teams, and insight necessary, to do its part in moving the United States rapidly toward the commercialization of fusion energy.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- Contributing Organization:
- DIII-D Team
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; FC02-04ER54698; AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 2301844
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-857632; 1087558
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 30, Issue 12; ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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