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DOE awards $134M for fusion research and development
The Department of Energy announced on Wednesday that it has awarded $134 million in funding for two programs designed to secure U.S. leadership in emerging fusion technologies and innovation. The funding was awarded through the DOE’s Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program in the Office of Science and will support the next round of Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) collaboratives and the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) awards.
Wei Liu, Chundong Hu, Lizhen Liang, Sheng Liu, Shihua Song, Jinxin Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 1 | January 2019 | Pages 75-80
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1471959
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutral beam injection is recognized as one of the most effective methods for plasma heating. According to the requirements for physics experiments of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), two beamlines for neutral beam injection were built in 2014. In order to meet the diverse requirements of magnetic confinement experiments, recent attempts have been carried out for arc power control of a neutral beam injection ion source. A test system was added to the arc power control system. It provides a new method to smoothly change arc power during a discharge. According to the experimental results of controlling arc power, the fesibility of varying the arc power was verified in the duration of discharge. Meanwhile, the test system achieves the remote setting of arc power parameters.
