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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.
Jing Pan, Weiwei Xu, Weibin Xi, Mingzhun Lei, Xufeng Liu, Songtao Wu, Kun Lu, Jing Wei, Yuntao Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 477-488
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1936376
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The evaluation of electromagnetic (EM) loads acting on conductive structures is one of the critical problems for tokamaks. This paper focuses on the main conductive components of the Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR), which are vacuum vessel (VV) and blanket components. A multiscenario EM load-calculating simulator is developed. The simulator adopts circuit equations for the calculation of eddy current, magnetic field, and resulting EM loads acting on the VV. And for EM loads acting on the blanket components, an integral parameter method is applied. With the circuit equations and pre-obtained integral parameters implanted in the simulator, EM loads on the CFETR VV and blankets at different scenarios can be evaluated quickly. Results indicate that the simulator can be conveniently used for multiscenario and real-time EM assessment of the tokamak VV and blanket components.