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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
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Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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Taking shape: Fusion energy ecosystems built with public-private partnerships
It’s possible to describe fusion in simple terms: heat and squeeze small atoms to get abundant clean energy. But there’s nothing simple about getting fusion ready for the grid.
Private developers, national lab and university researchers, suppliers, and end users working toward that goal are developing a range of complex technologies to reach fusion temperatures and pressures, confounded by science and technology gaps linked to plasma behavior; materials, diagnostics, and electronics for extreme environments; fuel cycle sustainability; and economics.
V. V. Postupaev et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 307-309
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11644
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper presents experimental data on plasma heating in a new regime of GOL-3 operation. Unlike previous experiments, the new regime features significant growth of energy of electrons in a relativistic electron beam during the beam pulse.The new dynamics of beam energy during the shot changes dynamics of plasma heating. A pronounced feature of previous GOL-3 experiments on plasma heating in the corrugated magnetic field was early transition to the plasma cooling stage, which in some regimes occurred much earlier than the beam injection stopped. In the gradual-energy-growth regime, plasma heating continues for a longer period until the beam power decreases significantly. Some other features will also be discussed.Experiments in the new regime allow us to partially verify feasibility of plasma heating with the electron beam at lowered beam parameters. This is important for the next planned step in GOL-3 program.