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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.
G. Nash
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 13-20
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32551
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Measurements of steam bubble velocities and voidage have been made in the relatively small Core B of the Lingen boiling water reactor. The results of axial scanning in one radial position have produced experimental values of slip ratio, power (from a traveling in-core probe), voidage, and coolant mean density over the core height for this position. This one set of distributions has enabled us to test current U.K. Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) models of subcooled boiling and slip ratio against experiment. From the comparisons, it appears that we can predict the onset of voiding well. Of four slip options tested, the current one used by UKAEA computer codes HAMBO and JOSHUA (Bankoff-Jones) predicts too high a slip ratio. A closer fit to experiment comes from the new Bryce flow-dependent slip option. Any changes in the modeling must be checked, however, with coupled thermal-hydraulics/neutronics computations.