PFC Status and Directions Jeffrey N Brooks Plasma
PFC Status and Directions Jeffrey N. Brooks Plasma Facing Components Steering Committee Plasma Facing Components Annual Meeting July 8 -10, 2009 MIT/Cambridge
PFC Steering Committee Task: Guide work, priorities, budgets Jeff Brooks (Purdue) – Chairman Jean Paul Allain (Purdue) – Deputy Gene Nardella – DOE Stan Milora – VLT Members D. Buchenauer (SNL) R. Doerner (UCSD) A. Hassanein (Purdue) R. Maingi (ORNL) R. Majeski (PPPL) N. Morley (UCLA) D. Whyte (MIT) R. Nygren (SNL) T. Rognlien (LLNL) D. Ruzic (UIUC) G. Tynan (UCSD) M. Ulrickson (SNL) C. Wong (GA) Brooks, PFC Annual Meeting 7/09, Cambridge
PFC Web Site: http: //engineering. purdue. edu/pfc e-mail to : J. P. Allain: allain@purdue. edu We will post presentations from this meeting (& link to MIT meeting site). Brooks, PFC Annual Meeting 7/09, Cambridge
Communication n “Physical” Meeting – 1/year: next- 2010 tbd. n Steering Committee conference calls – monthly n Special Topic conference calls – as needed Brooks, PFC Annual Meeting 7/09, Cambridge
Programmatic issues, work areas, priorities n ITER/enabling-technologies (solid materials) ~90% --Focus on All-Metal plasma facing components --Experiments at DIII-D, PISCES, CMOD, US Lab facilities (SNL, UIUC, MIT, etc. ) --Modeling/analysis (plasma edge/sol, sputter erosion, ELM etc. erosion, mixedmaterials, etc. ) n Liquid lithium ~10% --NSTX Liquid Lithium Divertor, etc. n JET, other international devices n DEMO, liquid tin/gallium, other future PFC studies Brooks, PFC Annual Meeting 7/09, Cambridge
Programmatic issues contd. n Coordinate PFC Program with other US groups/activities • Burning Plasma Organization – subgroups e. g. tritium issues, diagnostic mirrors • Edge Physics Group • Materials Group • FESAC • Etc. Brooks, PFC Annual Meeting 7/09, Cambridge
Challenges n Re. Ne. W: “Taming the Plasma Interface”– Challenges identified. Our PFC Community Response. n Plasma facing component performance is a critical issue for fusion work underfunded by ~X 3 n ITER full power D-T plasma in 18 years motivation issue. Brooks, PFC Annual Meeting 7/09, Cambridge
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