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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.
A. Iiyoshi, N. Kobayashi, T. Mutoh, S. Nakatani, S. Okada, M. Sato, H. Takano, Y. Tanahashi, N. Yamamoto, A. Fujita, Y. Kino
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 8 | November 2023 | Pages 1023-1038
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2204996
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Until the pure fusion ages come true, present nuclear power is a crucial option if humanity takes aim for a zero net carbon society by the 2050s. A thorium subcritical reactor activated and controlled by muon-catalyzed fusion (MuCF) is an alternative until the completion of the pure fusion reactors. This proposal consists of two main technologies: a steady-state MuCF and the thorium subcritical fission reactor with cascaded neutron multipliers. It will be an environmentally friendly quantum energy source built only by the present science and technologies in a few decades.