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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.
Haibiao Ji, Jiefeng Wu, Huapeng Wu, Zhihong Liu, Jianguo Ma, Yongqi Gu, Xiaosong Fan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | April 2021 | Pages 220-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1874763
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Laser trackers are widely used in product inspection in the manufacturing process of the vacuum vessel (VV) for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR). Due to the influence of temperature change on the geometrical properties of metallic materials, temperature change seriously affects the measurement accuracy of the workpiece. Therefore, temperature compensation is important to reduce the measurement errors caused by temperature change. This study uses 1/32 VV mockups as the research object. According to the results of finite element analysis and the onsite measurement results of the 1/32 VV at different temperatures, a method of temperature compensation for the 1/32 VV at different temperatures is summarized.
