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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.
Kun Lu, Shijun Qin, Zhuang Xu, Yang Zhang, Guang Shen, Zhihong Liu, Chen Liu, Jing Wei, Sumei Liu, Yuntao Song, Jiefeng Wu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 3 | April 2019 | Pages 226-233
Regular Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1555409
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The vacuum vessel (VV), one of the important components for the Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) superconducting magnet tokamak, can provide an ultrahigh vacuum and clean environment for plasma operation. The CFETR VV was preliminarily designed to be a torus with a D-shaped cross section, eight upper vertical ports, eight equatorial ports, and eight lower ports. In order to verify the design and key technologies to be used in the future, a 1/8 VV sector mock-up has been designed and fabricated at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (abbreviated ASIPP). In this paper, the mock-up is used to demonstrate thick austenitic stainless steel plate hot forming, welding, cutting, part segment assembly, and other technologies and developments. The design considerations and criteria of the 1/8 sector mock-up are discussed in detail. Based on these considerations, the main design parameters and characteristics of the 1/8 VV sector mock-up are described, including the inner shells, outer shells, and stiffening ribs between them and the straight line, arcs, and the tangential joint between them. Finally, the research and development of technologies for the mock-up manufacture that has been carried out at ASIPP is discussed.