The US Department of Energy, Of?ce of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) conducted a Research Needs Workshop, referred to as ReNeW, in June 2009. The information developed at this workshop will help OFES develop a plan for US fusion research during the ITER era, roughly the next two decades. The workshop was organized in ?ve Themes, one of which was Harnessing Fusion Power (or Fusion Power for short). The top level goal of the Fusion Power Theme was to identify the research needed to develop the knowledge to design and build, with high con?dence, robust and reliable systems that can convert fusion products to useful forms of energy in a reactor environment, including a self-suf?cient supply of tritium fuel. Each Theme was subsequently subdivided into Panels to address speci?c topics. The Fusion Power Panel topics were: Fusion Fuel Cycle; Power Extraction; Materials Science; Safety and Environment; and Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Inspectability (RAMI). Here we present the key ?ndings of the Fusion Power Theme.
Revised: November 13, 2012 |
Published: December 1, 2010
Citation
Meier W.R., R. Raffray, R.J. Kurtz, N.B. Morley, W.T. Reiersen, P. Sharpe, and S. Willms. 2010.Findings of the US research needs workshop on the topic of fusion power.Fusion Engineering and Design 85, no. 7-9:969-973.PNNL-SA-78786.doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2009.10.008