Enabling Technologies

Enabling technologies include such things as:

Magnets and magnet materials for LTSC, HTSC including HFSC
RF heating systems including ICH, ECH, LHCD, helicon and gyrotron sources
Neutral Beam Heating, both positive and negative ion beam
Pellet fueling, pumping and disruption mitigation
Advanced plasma facing components (PFCs) for first wall and divertor applications
Advanced In-vessel components (IVCs) like faraday shields and antenna guard armor
Advanced divertor configurations and ELM coils
Remote handling and RAMI
Blanket and shielding evaluations, neutronics and volumetric heating
Tritium processing and control
Vacuum vessel bake-out and wall conditioning

This is not meant to be an all-inclusive list. Other critical technologies for long-pulse fusion machines will also be considered.

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