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Notes on fusion
The ST25-HTS tokamak.
Governments around the world have been interested in fusion for more than 70 years. Fusion research was largely secret until 1968, when the Soviets unveiled exciting results from their tokamak (a magnetic confinement fusion device with a particular configuration that produces a toroidal plasma). The Soviets realized that tokamaks were not useful as weapons but could produce plasma in the million-degree temperature range to demonstrate Soviet scientific and technical prowess to the world.
Following this breakthrough, government laboratories around the world continued to pursue various methods of confining hot plasma to understand plasma physics under extreme conditions, getting closer and closer to the conditions necessary for fusion energy production. Tokamaks have been by far the most successful configuration. In the 1990s, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory produced 10 MW of fusion power using deuterium-tritium fusion. A few years later, the Joint European Torus (JET) in the United Kingdom increased that to 16 MW, getting close to breakeven using 24 MW of power to heat the plasma.
November 6–10, 2016
Nuclear Science & Technology: Imperatives for a Sustainable World
Las Vegas, NV|Caesars Palace
To view and purchase photos from the 2016 Winter Meeting & Expo go to: Photos The ANS Room block at Caesars Palace is now closed. Please call Caesar's Reservation Center at 866-227-5944 to check availability and pricing. Our meeting is listed as American Nuclear Society. You can also use our group code (SCANS6) to identify the correct room block.
Honorary Chair:
Alvin Trivelpiece (Former Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
General Chair:
Raymond J. Juzaitis (President, Retired, National Security Technologies, LLC)
Assistant General Chair:
Steven Curtis (Senior Program Manager, Readiness Resource Group)
Program Chair:
Charles "Chip" Martin (Chief Nuclear Officer, National Security Technologies, LLC)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Elia Merzari (Principal Nuclear Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory)
Piyush Sabharwall (Nuclear Staff Researcher, Idaho National Laboratory)
Embedded Topical Meeting
Finis Southworth (Consultant, NGNP Industry Alliance)
David Petti (Scientific/Engineering Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory)
