Accelerating the Development of Fusion Power
SOFE Town Hall Meeting, June 27, 2011, 7-9 pm
Updated on July 10, 2011
Introduction
The purpose of this site is to provide background information on
Accelerating the Development of Fusion Power. Suggestions for other
links, reports
and your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Please send suggestions
for information
or your comments for posting as an email attachment to
Dale Meade (dmeade at pppl.gov).
Rapid Development of Complex Large-Scale Technology is possible
- Manhattan Project (fission discovered in 1939, Manhattan Project
initiated in Aug 1942, first nuclear test in July 1945)
- Nautilus Submarine ( Authorized by Congress in Aug 1951,
Comissioned/full power nuclear operation in Jan
1955)
- Project Apollo - (Kennedy announces in 1961, Armstrong on moon
July 20,
1969)
- PDX (selected by Fusion Office July 1974, completed Nov1978),
DIII, PLT
had similar schedules
- TFTR (selected by Fusion Office in ERDA Jul 1974, Authorized by
Congress Mar
1976, Completed Dec 1982), JET, JT-60 had similar schedules
- Significant new results in regimes never before accessed ~ 3
years after first plasma that
signified construction completion.
- Examples of other projects would be welcomed.
SOFE Town Hall Meeting - Accelerating the Development of Fusion
Power (Announcement)
- Introduction – Dale Meade
- Breaking the Mold for a New
Strategy – Ray Fonck, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis
- Perspective from China on
Accelerating Fusion Development – Jiangang Li, Institute of Plasma
Physics,
Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei, China
- Fusion... How do we do more,
sooner? John Sethian, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC
- Insights from US ITER:
Strategies for Accelerating Fusion Energy as a Project – Ned
Sauthoff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
- Elements Needed to Accelerate
Fusion Development - Mike Dunne, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Submitted for Discussion on
Accelerating the Development of Fusion
Past Plans and Thoughts for Accelerating the
Development of Fusion
- U.S. Plan to Develop Fusion (1976) ,
Vol
I
(3.2
MB,
pdf)
-
includes
analysis
of accelerated
paths including the present "we never get there" path.
- Fusion Energy Act 1980 (408
kB, pdf) DEMO online in the 1990s, incorporated Logic III
scenario of 1976 Report
- An Accelerated Fusion Power
Development Plan Pilot Plant , Journal of Fusion Energy (4.8 MB,
pdf)1991
- European Fast Track
Strategy, King Panel December, 2001 (150 kB, pdf)
- FESAC Fusion Development
Path Panel - (35 Year plan) Final Report (1 Mb, pdf)
- Strengthening and
Acceleratingthe Development of Fusion Power - 2007 ISFNT
Meeting Chris Llewellyn Smith, UKAEA,
Culham, UK
- Strengthening and Accelerating
the Development of Fusion Energy -2008 AAAS Meeting Chris
Llewellyn Smith, UKAEA,
Culham, UK
- LIFE talks to IFE NAS
Talks on the Need for Fusion Energy
- The Need for Fusion: Sir
Chris Llewellyn Smith, Chair EU CCFU, Symposium on Fusion Technology
(SOFT) September 2004 New, September 23, 2004
- Stabilization Wedges: Solving
the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies
-
Pacala and Socolow, Science August 16, 2004 New, July 27, 2004
- Will fusion be welcome in the world
of the mid 21st century? Global trends and energy sustainability
considerations for the 21st century. Ed Frieman Maxwell Prize
Speech to
the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, November 14,
2002
- Fusion Papers at the 18th World Energy Conference, Oct 2001
- Fusion as a Future Power
Source: Recent Achievements and Prospects- Europe (573 kB, pdf)
T. Hamacher, A.M. Bradshaw, Max-Planck-Institut for Plasmaphysik,
Germany
- Role of Fusion in the 21st
Century Energy Market - Japan (950 kB, pdf), M. Kikuchi and N.
Inoue paper submitted to the World Energy Conference 2001
- Role of Fusion Energy in a
Sustainable Global Energy Strategy - US (667 kB, pdf), W. Meier,
F. Najmabadi, J. Schmidt and J. Sheffield paper submitted to the World
Energy Conference 2001
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