Gratitude to the Fusion Industry Association (FIA) for hosting a great Annual Policy Conference! I took pride introducing the DIII-D National Fusion Facility and announcing that eight FIA member organizations are DIII-D users conducting fundamental R&D at the facility.
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To make fusion energy, negative triangularity directs power exhaust into a region with lower magnetic field, causing power to spread more broadly along the wall. This would reduce engineering requirements for the plasma facing wall material in a reactor. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad69a4
Talks from the symposium of Fusion Power Associates are now available. You might find it interesting to read some of these perspectives from different fusion energy research teams. Or skip straight to the DIII-D talk!
Minimizing interactions between fusion plasmas and device walls in fusion energy reactors is essential. A single point of boron injection can be sufficient to cover the entire targeted surface, a huge simplification for using this technique in reactors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2024.101832
Last month I participated in the TechCon SoCal panel, “Powering the Future: The Strategic Importance of Energy Advancements.” Commercializing fusion energy requires the participation of clever startups and broad industry in order to get it done.
DIII-D‘s first Fusion Materials Industry day brings together 3 companies that will cooperatively utilize a run day at DIII-D to advance their technologies. Tokamak Energy: advanced tungsten materials Avalanche Energy: MPEAs, ceramics Thea Energy: pebble-rod tech