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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
D. P. Schissel, G. Abla, S. Flanagan, L. Kim, X. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 3 | November 2010 | Pages 720-726
Selected Paper from Sixth Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2010 (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10920
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The DIII-D National Fusion Facility is a national and international collaboration among approximately 100 institutions with an overall goal of establishing the scientific basis for the optimization of the tokamak approach to fusion energy. A key enabler of the DIII-D mission is its extensive diagnostic set (>50), which measures relevant equilibrium parameters as well as turbulence fields. The ability to access, analyze, visualize, and assimilate data between DIII-D pulses that enables real-time decision making by an international team is a critical infrastructure component of the successful operation of the DIII-D facility. This paper examines the computer science issues associated with deploying this infrastructure in a geographically distributed environment where near-real-time support of control room decision making is required. The implication of this work on the operation of future experimental machines such as ITER is also presented.