@article{7f390d2a8b7e4f859b43e8a208a46ea5,
title = "A plan for the development of fusion energy",
abstract = "This is the final report of a panel set up by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) in response to a charge letter dated September 10, 2002 from Dr. Ray Orbach, Director of the DOE's Office of Science. In that letter, Dr. Orbach asked FESAC to develop a plan with the end goal of the start of operation of a demonstration power plant in approximately 35 years. This report, submitted March 5, 2003, presents such a plan, leading to commercial application of fusion energy by mid-century. The plan is derived from the necessary features of a demonstration fusion power plant and from the time scale defined by President Bush. It identifies critical milestones, key decision points, needed major facilities and required budgets. The report also responds to a request from DOE to FESAC to describe what new or upgraded fusion facilities will {"}best serve our purposes{"} over a time frame of the next twenty years.",
keywords = "Fusion energy, Fusion program plan",
author = "Goldston, {Robert James} and Mohamed Abdou and Charles Baker and Michael Campbell and Vincent Chan and Stephen Dean and Amanda Hubbard and Robert Iotti and Thomas Jarboe and John Lindl and Logan, {B. Grant} and Kathryn McCarthy and Farrokh Najmabadi and Craig Olson and Prager, {Stewart C.} and Ned Sauthoff and John Sethian and John Sheffield and Steven Zinkle",
note = "Funding Information: Advance the fundamental understanding and predictability of high energy density plasmas for IFE, leveraging from the ICF target physics work sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Agency{\textquoteright}s Office of Defense Programs. Funding Information: New MFE and IFE Domestic Facilities; Design the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility Specific Objectives: ● Begin construction of ITER, and develop science and technology to support and utilize this facility. If ITER does not move forward to construction, then complete the design and begin construction of the domestic FIRE experiment. ● Complete NIF and ZR (Z Refurbishment) (funded by NNSA). ● Study attractive MFE configurations and advanced operation regimes in preparation for new MFE Performance Extension (PE) facilities required to advance configurations to Demo. ● Develop configuration options for MFE Component Test Facility (CTF). ● Participate in design of International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) ● Test fusion technologies in non-fusion facilities in preparation for early testing in ITER, including first blanket modules, and to support configuration optimization. ● Develop critical science and technologies that can meet IFE requirements for efficiency, rep-rate and durability, including drivers, final power feed to target, target fabrication, target injection and tracking, chambers and target design/target physics. ● Explore fast ignition for IFE (funded largely by NNSA). ● Conduct energy-scaled direct-drive cryogenic implosions and high intensity planar experiments (funded by NNSA). ● Conduct z-pinch indirect-drive target implosions (funded by NNSA). ● Provide up-to-date conceptual designs for MFE and IFE power plants. ● Validate key theoretical and computational models of plasma behavior. 2008 Decisions: Assuming successful accomplishment of goals, the cost-basis scenario assumes that by this time decisions are taken to construct: ● International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility ● First New MFE Performance Extension Facility ● First IFE Integrated Research Experiment Facility",
year = "2002",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1023/A:1025038002187",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "61--111",
journal = "Journal of Fusion Energy",
issn = "0164-0313",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "2",
}