A Review of the DOE Plan for U.S. Fusion Community Participation in the ITER Program (2009) / Chapter Skim
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2 Evaluation of the Current DOE Plan for U.S. Plasma Science Community Participation in ITER
2 Evaluation of the Current DOE Plan for U.S. Plasma Science Community Participation in ITER
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The plan has been elaborated and built upon in subsequent plan ning processes, including the ongoing Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) strategic planning and U.S.
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SOURCE: ITER Organization. Copyright by the ITER Organization.
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The ITPA, which provides a direct con nection between the worldwide science communities and the IO, will soon come under the auspices of the IO. The ITPA may be viewed as the ITER Organization DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences US Burning Virtual Laboratory ITPA US ITER Project Office Plasma Organization for Technology Chief Scientist Chief Technologist (USBPO Director)
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The group leaders meet biweekly, via videoconferencing, to coordinate, prioritize, and organize tasks on burning plasmas, focusing on ITER. The USBPO is led by a director and an assistant director, advised by a 14-mem ber council elected from the research community.
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. Due to the effectiveness of the USBPO and other elements of the DOE plan for par ticipating in ITER, the United States was the first ITER partner to identify performers and propose specific tasks for the United States in the design review process, ensuring that ITER would continue to be able to address the U.S.
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international partners in ITER are explicitly orga nized toward developing fusion energy and a Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO)
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research plan's science campaigns will evolve because that plan is intrinsically tied to the developing international ITER research plan, as well as to evolving domestic organizational efforts. Despite this evolution, the committee expects the four overarching research questions to remain the focus of the U.S.
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Burning Plasma Organization.
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nswer the key scientific ques tions and overcome enormous technical challenges to harness the power that fuels a star, realizing by the middle of this century a landmark sci entific achievement by bringing ‘fusion power to the grid.'" ITER is a central part of the DOE/OFES program and is consistent with its stated mission of developing the knowledge base needed for an economically and environmentally attractive fusion energy source. Earlier FESAC and National Research Council (NRC)
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Stable and predictable funding has been recommended in numerous NRC and FESAC reports, and this committee endorses the sapience of those recommendations. Failure of the United States to meet its obligations See National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2007; National Research Council, Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2007; National Research Council, Burning Plasma: Bringing a Star to Earth, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2004; Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, Review of the Strategic Plan for International Collaboration on Fusion Science and Technology Research, Washington, D.C., January 23, 1998; and Fusion Energy Sci ences Advisory Committee, Report of the Panel on Criteria, Goals, and Metrics, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1999.
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A recent NRC report, Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest, recommended the formulation and periodic updating of a 15-year stra tegic plan for burning plasma research, which this committee endorses. As described in Plasma Science, this plan would address several issues 10 Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, Priorities, Gaps, and Opportunities: Towards a Long-Range Strategic Plan for Magnetic Fusion Energy, Washington, D.C., 2007.
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7; Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, Fusion in the Era of Burning Plasma Studies: Workforce Planning for 2004-2014, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2004; U.S. Department of Energy, Letter from Associate Director Anne Davies to FESAC Chair Dr.
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Fusion Energy Sciences program is the devel opment of a predictive understanding of the fusion plasma system to support moving beyond ITER. A metric for progress in scientific under standing is whether the specific goals that collectively define the research agenda discussed above are achieved in the expected time frames.
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As the ITER project develops, a substantial augmentation in fusion science pro gram funding will be required in addition to the direct financial commit ment to ITER construction."16 The strong U.S. participation in the ITER 16 National Research Council, Burning Plasma: Bringing a Star to Earth, The National Acad emies Press, Washington, D.C., 2004, p.
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However, each of these research areas needs to be based on improved predictive capability. Finding: Consistent with previous National Research Council and Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee reports, the commit tee emphasizes that a vigorous and strategically balanced domestic program is required to ensure that U.S.
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