A Review of the DOE Plan for U.S. Fusion Community Participation in the ITER Program (2009) / Chapter Skim
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In 1968, the Soviet Union reported a major breakthrough in magnetically confined fusion -- a concept for a confinement device called a "tokamak," an acronym based on Russian words for toroidal magnetic chamber. Following this breakthrough, fusion research developed rapidly, consistently doubling tokamak performance every year, as countries competed to improve the performance of the tokamak concept over successive generations of experiments.
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The community also noted that the ITER project had adopted changes advocated by the United States. Motivated by the renewed pros pect of a positive next step in magnetic fusion research, in 2002 the DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee voiced its support for a renewal of U.S.
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, the objective of the ITER project is "to demonstrate the scientific and tech nological feasibility of fusion energy for peaceful purposes, an essential feature of which would be achieving sustained fusion power genera tion." According to the ITER Web site, "ITER will accomplish this objec tive by demonstrating high power amplification and extended burn of deuterium-tritium plasmas, with steady-state as an ultimate goal, by demonstrating technologies essential to a reactor in an integrated system, and by performing integrated testing of the high-heat-flux and nuclear components required to utilize fusion energy for practical purposes." The current plan is that construction of ITER will begin in 2008. ITER seeks to achieve its first plasma in 2018 and is expected to operate for 20 years.
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In the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58, August 8, 2005) , Congress authorized negotiation of "an agreement for United States participation in the ITER," and participation in ITER is identified by the DOE Office of Science as its top priority for the next 20 years. However, in the FY2008 U.S.
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Orbach's letter are that "there will be some limitations in our ability to fully participate in ITER activi ties" but that the United States will remain engaged in key technical, scheduling, and planning activities.
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a description of how work at the ITER will relate to other elements of the United States fusion program. In February 2006, DOE asked the U.S Burning Plasma Organization (USBPO)
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