TOFE Plenary II: Roadmap for Fusion Energy's Future - DOE FS&T Roadmap and FIRE Collaboratives

At the beginning of the session, the TOFE Student Paper Competition and ANS Fusion Energy Division Professional Awards will be announced.

The United States' roadmap for fusion energy's future has been recently kicked off with the Department of Energy's Fusion Science and Technology roadmap. The keynote talk by DOE's Fusion Energy Science Program's leadership will provide highlights of the DOE FS&T roadmap that provides the national strategy to rapidly deploy and commercialize fusion energy by the mid-2030s. Within this talk, the DOE's Build-Innovate-Grow strategy will be discussed that coordinating public and private efforts including the DOE Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives. The audience is encouraged for a question and answer session with DOE FES leadership on the FS&T roadmap once the keynote presentation is completed.

Afterwards, we will kick off the presentation of the thirteen FIRE Collaboratives starting with the Target Injector Nexus for Development Research (TINEX) FIRE Collab by Dr. Mario Manuel of General Atomics. The TINEX FIRE collaborative addresses technology gaps in many aspects of the Inertial Fusion Energy target life cycle such as characterizing wetted-foam capsules during production, injecting the fragile targets at 50 m/s, and tracking them with radiation-hardened diagnostics. Next, the Fusion Energy Data Ecosystem and Repository (FEDER) FIRE collab presented by Dr. Raffi Nazikian of General Atomics. The FEDER FIRE collab building a logically centralized, physically federated data lake that ingests, curates, and exposes experimental, materials, and simulation data spanning both magnetic and inertial fusion.