INFUSE Topics

Many of the diagnostics developed at the participating institutes over the last fifty years can be made available to private companies and adapted for use on their own machines through collaboration with the INFUSE institutions.

Enabling technologies includes, but is not limited to: magnets and magnet materials, RF heating systems, pellet fueling, advanced plasma facing components, advanced divertor configurations, remote handling, blanket and shielding evaluations, tritium processing.

The experimental capabilities area involves partnering with the public institutions participating in INFUSE to utilize already existing, unique facilities at those institutes to qualify materials or test engineering concepts.

Fusion materials research topics include both structural and functional materials required for nuclear systems.

Modeling and simulation has a long history with researchers and scientists exploring fusion energy technologies through SciDAC. Researchers and scientists in the Department of Energy are developing new tools to predict the performance, reliability and economics of fusion reactor concepts.

Activities that support paths to eventual fusion commercialization may include, but are not limited to: accident and safety analysis, public engagement, fuel supplies, advanced manufacturing, waste disposition and recycling.