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DOE’s latest fusion energy road map aims to bridge known gaps
The Department of Energy introduced a Fusion Science & Technology (S&T) Roadmap on October 16 as a national “Build–Innovate–Grow” strategy to develop and commercialize fusion energy by the mid-2030s by aligning public investment and private innovation. Hailed by Darío Gil, the DOE’s new undersecretary for science, as bringing “unprecedented coordination across America's fusion enterprise” and advancing President Trump’s January 2025 executive order, on “Unleashing American Energy,” the road map echoes plans issued by the DOE’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) in 2023 and 2024, with a new emphasis on the convergence of AI and fusion.
The road map release coincided with other fusion energy events held this week in Washington, D.C., and beyond.
R. B. Bennett, W. M. Stacey, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 4 | December 1984 | Pages 475-485
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18366
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A theory for the effect of directed neutral beam injection (NBI) on impurity transport in tokamaks is extended to include temperature gradient effects. The extended theory is compared with experimental data from the Princeton Large Torus, and certain coefficients are adjusted to provide agreement. The adjusted theory is applied to assess the potential of NBI being used to prevent impurities from penetrating to the center of future tokamak plasmas, thereby possibly creating a cold radiating edge. The results indicate the possibility of creating a cold radiating edge in the tokamak fusion test reactor and in future tokamaks represented by the fusion engineering device and STARFIRE.