Fusion Materials

A Critical Issue for Fusion

Updated April 18,  2012

We will be collecting information of relevance to the development of materials needed for fusion energy. Please send suggestions to dmeade@pppl.gov or Steve Zinkle at zinklesj@ornl.gov.

Overview Papers and Presentations

• MW Spallation Neutron Sources for Fusion Materials Testing  Don Rej,  LANL,  October 2009  Posted July 22, 2011(repost)
  
• Fusion Materials Irradiations at MaRIE’S fission-fusion facility Eric Pitcher, LANL, SOFT 2010
  
• The Materials Test Station: A fast-spectrum irradiation facility Eric Pitcher, LANO, JNM 2008
  
• Multiscale Modeling of Radiation Damage in Fusion Reactor Materials Brian D. Wirth et al (5.8 MB pdf) presented at DOE, March 12, 2002.
• Advanced Materials for Fusion Technology Steve Zinkle and A Kohyama (3.5 MB pdf) presented at SOFE 2002, January 25, 2002.
• Fusion Technology R & D in Japan A. Kohyama (2.8 MB, pdf)
• Frontiers of Fusion Materials Science, by S.J. Zinkle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (4.8 MB, pdf).
• Plasma-material Interactions in Current Tokamaks and their Implications for Next-step Fusion Reactors G. Federici, C. Skinner et al (9.8 MB pdf) - background - a comprehensive review paper.
• Tungsten as First Wall Material in the Main Chamber of ASDEX Upgrade V. Rohde (1.4 MB, pdf)

Fusion Materials Web Sites

• ORNL Fusion Materials Home Page
• U.S. Fusion Materials Home Page

International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility

• IFMIF Conceptual Design Report
• IFMIF Activity Reports and Meeting notes
• International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility - Japan
• International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility - Europe

Neutron Sources

• Comparison of Neutron Sources (2.8 MB, pdf0 A. Moeslang, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe FZK, Germany, June 2001
• Some considerations of the usefulness of the proposed spallation source ESS for fusion materials irradiations (836 kB, pdf) A. Moeslang, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe FZK, Germany January 2002
• Neutron Scattering Home Page
• SNS - Spallation Neutron Source
• ISIS - Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source
• Japan JAERI High Intensity Accelerator

The Multi-Machine Strategy

The Secretary of Energy Advisory Board(SEAB) Task Force on Fusion Energy review of the U. S. fusion program noted that "A necessary next major scientific step is the exploration of the physics of a burning plasma. At the present time only the tokamak is sufficiently advanced as to assure the necessary confinement in such an experiment." The National Research Council Assessment of Fusion Science(FuSAC) Interim Report identified several critical unresolved fusion science issues: (1) turbulence and transport, (2) energy density limits and (3) integrated physics of self-heated plasmas. The goal of FIRE is to address the critical scientific issues of a magnetically confined fusion plasma identified by SEAB and FuSAC within the next decade using the most cost-effective approach. Success in FIRE would serve as a "Stepping Stone" to provide the scientific foundation needed for an attractive fusion energy source as envisioned by the Advanced Reactor Innovation Evaluation Study (ARIES) .

Fusion Ignition Research Experiment FIRE on the Mountain , a summary of FIRE written for the Special Snowmass Issue of Comments on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol.2(2), pp81-97, 2000 (144 kB, pdf)

Road Map for a Modular Magnetic Fusion Program Modular Road Map Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol. 17, No. 2, p 125 June 2000 (121kB, pdf)

Burning Plasma Science-FESAC Two Pager (65KB, pdf) April, 1999

Burning Plasma Options-FESAC Two Pager (40KB, pdf) April, 1999

Grunder Panel Report to FESAC (25KB, pdf) January, 1998

Modular Strategy July 1998 (90KB, pdf) Excerpt from the Next Step Options Report July 1998

Forum for Major Next-Step Fusion Experiments Summary, (480KB, pdf) Madison, May 1, 1998

ARIES Reports Fusion Power Plant Studies

European Fusion Reviews

• A new Fast Track Strategy (148 kB, pdf) was presented to the European Council of Research Ministers meeting on December 10, 2001. January 10, 2002.
• A new Fast Track Concept in the European Fusion Programme (2.7MB, ppt) presented at the symposium on Burning Plasma physics and Technology in ITER, January 24, 2002. New, March 6, 2002.
• Assessments of the European Fifth Framework (1998-2002) Program have been submitted to the European Commission. The Commission is reviewing these assessments and is expected to issue its comments in the September time frame. The Fusion Assessment Board Report (390 kB, pdf) was chaired by Professor A. Airaghi. The listing of all Fifth Framework Program Assessment Reports can be found at the Fifth Framework Program Web site Fifth Framework Assessments
• How far is a Fusion Power Reactor from an Experimental Reactor? by R. Toschi, a paper presented at the SOFT Conference in Madrid, Spain, September, 2000 (85 kB, pdf)
• Thermonuclear Fusion Energy : Assessment and Next Step by Rene Pellat, High Commissioner at the French Atomic Energy and Chairman of the CCE-FU, at the Energy and Environment Conference Nuclear and Renewable Energy in Rome March 8 - 9, 2000 (250 kB, pdf)

US Fusion Policy and Recent Reviews

• Draft FESAC Report on Integrated Program Planning Activity (IPPA) to be discussed at the FESAC meeting July 18-19 at San Diego(490 kB, pdf)July 5, 2000
• FESAC Panel on Priorities and Balance Report including Letter to DOE, Final(110KB, pdf) September 20, 1999
• National Research Council Assessment of Fusion Science, FuSAC Interim Report (340KB, pdf) September 10, 1999
• SEAB Task Force on Fusion Energy, Final Report (540KB, pdf) August 9, 1999.

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