Transcript Visions for Data Management and Remote Collaboration on ITER

FESAC Planning Panel
Third Meeting
PPPL
August 7-9, 2007
FESAC Planning Panel August 7, 2007
From Charge by Under Secretary Orbach
“To assist planning for the ITER era, it is critical that FESAC identify the
issues arising in a path to DEMO, with ITER as a central part of that
effort”
– “Identify and prioritize the broad scientific and technical
questions to be answered prior to a DEMO.”
– “Assess available means (inventory), including all existing and
planned facilities around the world, as well as theory and
modeling, to address these questions.”
– “Identify research gaps and how they may be addressed
through new facility concepts, theory and modeling.”
FESAC Planning Panel August 7, 2007
Discussion of Charge
● We can’t predict the specific implementation for DEMO so we
take a broad view.
– Electricity producing, demonstration power plant
– High gain
– High availability and reliability
– Demonstration of all relevant technologies
● DEMO and the development path drive the time line and help
define needs – but we are not charged with producing a roadmap
or a (new) complete development plan.
● Note: our work is especially important in informing decisions for
the next step(s) the program may take.
● We aren’t reviewing or recommending specific facilities
● The context is international, but US leadership is desired
FESAC Planning Panel August 7, 2007
The Panel’s Job
1. Identify issues that must be addressed to create knowledge base for
DEMO
– How do we define a “basis” set of “broad” questions and issues?
2. Prioritize these issues
– What are the criteria we should be using?
3. Inventory available means – in current and planned programs
– What will these programs actually do?
4. Identify critical paths and gaps
– Where are we headed? What will DEMO be?
5. Identify opportunities - how the gaps may be filled
– How to synthesize from all of the above?
FESAC Planning Panel August 7, 2007
Agenda For This Morning
08:30 - 08:50 Greenwald - Welcome and review of charge
08:50 - 09:20 Kurtz - Challenges for Demo Materials Development
09:20 - 09:40 Whyte - First wall issues
09:40 - 10:00 Skinner/Gentile - Tritium retention and dust
10:00 - 10:20 Ruzic - The Case for Liquid Lithium
10:20 - 10:40 Zakharov - Li wall fusion
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:20 Raman - Requirements for an Advanced Fueling System
11:20 - 11:40 Ono - An ST Fusion Development Path
11:40 - 12:00 Boozer - Quasi-axisymmetric Extensions
12:00 - 12:20 Lyon - Compact Stellarator Approach to Demo
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch
FESAC Planning Panel August 7, 2007
Agenda For This Afternoon
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 1:50 Phillips - RF Heating and Current Drive Issues for Demo
1:50 - 2:10 Wukitch/Porkolab - RF Heating and Current Drive Systems
2:10 - 2:30 Bonoli - Input on Steady State Issues for Demo
2:30 - 2:50 Friedberg - Fission/fusion hybrids
2:50 - 3:10 Dean - Paths to a Fusion Demo
3:10 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 3:50 Burgess - Remote handling
3:50 - 4:10 Morley - Blankets and divertors
4:10 - 4:30 Jarboe - A case for a facility to rapidly advance the CT concept
4:30 - 4:50 Fu/Gorelenkov - Energetic Particle Physics in Burning Plasmas
4:50 - 5:10 Hahm Outstanding Issues in Transport Physics
5:10 - 5:30 Peng - Nuclear Component Testing issues
5:30 - 5:50 Goldston - Implications of the fusion development path study
FESAC Planning Panel August 7, 2007