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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.
Alexei Yu. Chirkov, Semion A. Tokarev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 413-420
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2135337
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The formation of the spectrum of ions leaving the Z-pinch constriction during its compression is considered in the framework of the thermal mechanism corresponding to collisional regimes at high density. This mechanism refers to the heating of all ions due to compression without consideration of the electromagnetic acceleration of any selected group of ions. It is shown that such conditions can be implemented in relatively high-density regimes in which the product of precompression density and radius is n0a0 ≫ 1024 m–3. Neutron yield is analyzed. Possible parameters of a fusion reactor based on a high-density Z-pinch are estimated and found to be extremely high in terms of today’s technology.