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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.
Ling Yu, Yongjian Xu, Xufeng Peng, Wei Liu, Yahong Xie
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 5 | July 2022 | Pages 389-394
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2035642
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
According to the development trend of the international neutral beam injector diagnostic technology, it is planned to design a multichannel Langmuir electrostatic probe diagnostic system for the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology negative-ion-based beam injector prototype. The probes are installed at different components of the neutral beam device to obtain plasma parameters. As the probes are at different positions and different potentials, conventional data acquisition systems, which are based on the traditional Ethernet protocol in publicly available resources, cannot meet the requirements of potential isolation and synchronous acquisition with high time resolution in the experiment. A data acquisition and processing system that is based on the fiber optic network of the Time Sensitive Networking protocol is put forward that solves the synchronous acquisition of signals at different potentials with high time resolution to achieve data processing. It provides the technical means for the study of plasma characteristics of the radio frequency negative ion source.