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NSTX-U – A national User Facility to close the key fusion gaps

Year: 2024

Type: report

Abstract: This presentation lays out how the NSTX-U Research Program will help close the science and technology gaps for moving towards a Fusion Pilot Plant (FPP) and how this work is aligned with the Bold Decadal Vision. The science gap focuses on determining whether the good confinement trends in Spherical Tokamaks extends to lower collisionalities that are comparable to those expected in FPPs. The technology gap is one of mitigating the power exhaust in FPPs, and NSTX-U is uniquely positioned to test Liquid Metal components in the highest heat flux environment of any existing tokamak, spherical or otherwise.

DOI: 10.2172/2478681

Authors: Steve Cowley, USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), Rajesh Maingi, Stanley Kaye, Jon Menard

Institution: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Magnetic confinement fusion research

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4405008625

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