1 / 8

ExCo Meetings of IEA Large Tokamak Facilities and Poloidal Divertor IAs

U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Fusion Energy Sciences Program Update. ExCo Meetings of IEA Large Tokamak Facilities and Poloidal Divertor IAs GA, San Diego; Jan 2-3, 2008. Dr. Erol Oktay Acting Director ITER and International Division. www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov.

rubaina-manaf
Download Presentation

ExCo Meetings of IEA Large Tokamak Facilities and Poloidal Divertor IAs

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. U.S. Department of Energy’sOffice of Science Fusion Energy Sciences Program Update ExCo Meetings of IEA Large Tokamak Facilities and Poloidal Divertor IAs GA, San Diego; Jan 2-3, 2008 Dr. Erol Oktay Acting Director ITER and International Division www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov

  2. Critical Program Activities in Progress • Extensive ITER related activities - Budget issues, IC-2 meeting • Active USBPO involvement with the ITER Design Review and STAC deliberations • Cancellation of the NCSX Project - Significant Cost Increase and schedule delays • FESAC Report on “Priorities, Gaps, and Opportunities: Towards a Long Range Strategic Plan for Magnetic Fusion Energy” • NAS Decadel Survey of Plasma Science and Engineering • Review of EPAct Report on U.S. Participation in ITER Science • Workshops on Fusion Simulation Project • Joint Program with NNSA on High Energy Density Physics

  3. FY 2007-09 Budget Overview • Congress included only ~ $10 M for ITER of the requested ~ $160 M in FY 2008 • U.S. continues participation in key ITER activities • FY 2009 request includes $ 214 M for ITER • Facilities operating for increased number of weeks (15-18) in FY 08, dropping to ~ 10-12 weeks in FY 2009 • FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 $311.7 M $286.5 M $493.1 M

  4. Three Major Facilities are all operating • A Tokamak Workshop held in Sept 2007 to plan for 5 Year programs for the three facilities (DIII-D, C-MOD, NSTX) • Reviews of 5-year proposals in progress • Additional resources provided in FY 2008 to increase their operating weeks to 15 weeks (NSTX), and 18 weeks (DIII-D and C-MOD) • Highlights from the three facilities to be given by • Tony Taylor: DIII-D • Earl Marmar: C-MOD • Rich Hawryluk NSTX

  5. Strategic Planning for the Program in progress • A first step was to identify: Priorities, Gaps, and Opportunities: Towards a Long Range Strategic Plan for Magnetic Fusion Energy • Greenwald Panel issued its report in October 2007 • Two new charges to FESAC • Joint Program with NNSA on High Energy Density laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP) • Alternate Concepts (Stellarator, Spherical Torus, Reversed Field Pinch, Compact Torii) • These FESAC reviews will feed into an overall integrated Strategic Plan

  6. SciDAC Program and Fusion Simulation project • SciDAC Program: Advance scientific discovery in fusion plasma physiucs by exploiting the emerging capabilities of terascale and petascale computing and associated progress in software and algorithm development • Eight SciDAC Projects: • Five are focused on topical science areas (RF, MHD, Turbulence & Transport, Energetic Particles • Three are focused on integration (RF +MHD, plasma edge region, core+edge+wall) – referred to as Fusion Simulation Prototype Centers • A modest start on FSP in FY 2009

  7. US Burning Plasma Organizationvery active in several areas • Technical input and briefing of US STAC members on key STAC issues for ITER • Input to the NAS review of the EPAct Report • Input to the Tokamak Workshop • US members of ITPA represent the USBPO ITPA meetings • Assisted OFES in identifying US nominees for new ITPA Chairs and Deputy Chairs • Many outreach activities at major meetings such as APS, TTF, NRC, IUPAP

  8. Further Details on US Program Status http://www.science.doe.gov/ofes/fesac.shtml http://burningplasma.org/home.html

More Related