Session RP1 - Poster Session VIII.
POSTER session, Thursday afternoon, October 30
Fran Hill Southeast Exhibit Hall, ACC
Attractive magnetic fusion based on the tokamak will require significant progress in: plasma confinement for self-heating, MHD stability for high plasma pressure, self-generation of the confining magnetic field, and high power density exhaust through the plasma edge. A burning plasma experiment faces the challenge of first being able to access burning plasma conditions, and to then extend dimensional and normalized plasma parameters toward the fusion plasma regimes described in the ARIES studies. The ARIES plasma regimes also require the plasma to evolve to a largely self-organized plasma state that will present a grand challenge for magnetic fusion science. ITER, an international collaboration on a reactor-scale facility to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion, and FIRE, a national design study of a next step experiment to explore and optimize burning plasmas, are being pursued to address the issues described above. The dimensionless (e.g., H, beta, f_bs, Q, etc.) and normalized (e.g., fusion power density, P_loss/R, etc. ) metrics for fusion Ramp;D that can be accessed on ITER and FIRE will be described. Additional information is available at http://fire.pppl.gov. Work supported by DOE Contract # DE-AC02-76CH0 3073.