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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.
Guoliang Yuan, Lingfeng Wei, Zuowei Wen, Jinwen Zhang, Qingwei Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 5 | July 2022 | Pages 420-426
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.2002503
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The fission chamber plays a key role in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) neutron flux measurement. However, the matched preamplifier cannot tolerate the strong radiation of ITER. This can be solved by using a cable to transmit the signal from the detector to the preamplifier. The object of this project is to develop charge preamplifiers that admit a long cable as input. The input stage and gain stage of the charge preamplifier in previous work have been improved to reduce the rise time and noise degradation caused by the capacitance of the long cable. The experimental results confirm that the preamplifier can admit the fission chamber detector and a 20-m cable.