Accelerating the Development of Fusion Power
Updated on March 25, 2019
Introduction
The purpose of this site is to provide background information on
Accelerating the Development of Fusion Power. Suggestions for
other
links, reports
and your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Please send
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Dale Meade (dmeade at pppl.gov).
Rapid Development of Complex Large-Scale Technology is
possible
- Manhattan Project (fission discovered in 1939, Manhattan
Project
initiated in Aug 1942, first nuclear test in July 1945)
- Nautilus Submarine ( Authorized by Congress in Aug 1951,
Comissioned/full power nuclear operation in Jan
1955)
- Project Apollo - (Kennedy announces in 1961, Armstrong on moon
July 20,
1969)
- PDX (selected by Fusion Office July 1974, completed Nov1978),
DIII, PLT
had similar schedules
- TFTR (selected by Fusion Office in ERDA Jul 1974, Authorized
by
Congress Mar
1976, Completed Dec 1982), JET, JT-60 had similar schedules
- Significant new results in regimes never before accessed ~ 3
years after first plasma that
signified construction completion.
- Examples of other projects would be welcomed.
Royal Society Discussion Meeting, Fusion Energy using Tokamaks,
can Development be Accelerated? March 26-27, 2018
2011 SOFE Town Hall Meeting - Accelerating the Development of
Fusion
Power (Announcement)-June
27, 2011, 7-9 pm
- Introduction – Dale Meade
- Breaking the Mold for a New
Strategy – Ray Fonck, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wis
- Perspective from China on
Accelerating Fusion Development – Jiangang Li, Institute
of Plasma
Physics,
Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei, China
- Fusion... How do we do
more,
sooner? John Sethian, Naval Research
Laboratory,
Washington, DC
- Insights from US ITER:
Strategies for Accelerating Fusion Energy as a Project –
Ned
Sauthoff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
- Elements Needed to
Accelerate
Fusion Development - Mike Dunne, Lawrence Livermore
National
Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Community Discussion on
Accelerating the Development of Fusion
Past Plans and Thoughts for Accelerating the
Development of Fusion
- U.S. Plan to Develop Fusion
(1976) ,
Vol
I
(3.2
MB,
pdf)
-
includes
analysis
of
accelerated
paths including the present "we never get there" path.
- Fusion Energy Act 1980 (408
kB, pdf) DEMO online in the 1990s, incorporated Logic III
scenario of 1976 Report
- An Accelerated Fusion Power
Development Plan Pilot Plant , Journal of Fusion Energy
(4.8 MB,
pdf)1991
- European Fast Track
Strategy, King Panel December, 2001 (150 kB, pdf)
- FESAC Fusion
Development
Path Panel - (35 Year plan) Final Report (1 Mb, pdf)
- Strengthening and
Acceleratingthe Development of Fusion Power - 2007 ISFNT
Meeting Chris Llewellyn Smith, UKAEA,
Culham, UK
- Strengthening and Accelerating
the Development of Fusion Energy -2008 AAAS Meeting
Chris
Llewellyn Smith, UKAEA,
Culham, UK
- LIFE talks to IFE NAS
Talks on the Need for Fusion Energy
- The Need for Fusion: Sir
Chris Llewellyn Smith, Chair EU CCFU, Symposium on Fusion
Technology
(SOFT) September 2004 New, September
23, 2004
- Stabilization Wedges:
Solving
the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current
Technologies
-
Pacala and Socolow, Science August 16, 2004 New, July 27, 2004
- Will fusion be welcome in the
world
of the mid 21st century? Global trends and energy
sustainability
considerations for the 21st century. Ed Frieman Maxwell
Prize
Speech to
the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics,
November 14,
2002
- Fusion Papers at the 18th World Energy Conference, Oct 2001
- Fusion as a Future Power
Source: Recent Achievements and Prospects- Europe
(573 kB, pdf)
T. Hamacher, A.M. Bradshaw, Max-Planck-Institut for
Plasmaphysik,
Germany
- Role of Fusion in the 21st
Century Energy Market - Japan (950 kB, pdf), M.
Kikuchi and N.
Inoue paper submitted to the World Energy Conference 2001
- Role of Fusion Energy in a
Sustainable Global Energy Strategy - US (667 kB,
pdf), W. Meier,
F. Najmabadi, J. Schmidt and J. Sheffield paper submitted to
the World
Energy Conference 2001
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