Critical Technology Issues and Development Requirements for a Fusion Development Facility

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 n...

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Published in:Fusion technology 2001-03, Vol.39 (2P2), p.473-479
Main Authors: Wesley, John C., Stambaugh, Ronald D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Controled nuclear fusion plants
Energy
Energy. Thermal use of fuels
Exact sciences and technology
Fusion reactors
Installations for energy generation and conversion: thermal and electrical energy
Magnetic confinement and equilibrium
Neutron sources
Parameter estimation
Physics
Physics of gases, plasmas and electric discharges
Physics of plasmas and electric discharges
Plant layout
Plasma theory
Tokamaks
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0748-1896
DOI:10.13182/FST01-A11963281