The first round of 2022 INFUSE awards has been announced by DOE. The official announcement can be found here. A list of projects with abstracts is in the library. Thank you to all the submitters and reviewers who participated in the 1st round of 2022.
| Characterization of Turbulent Transport and Confinement in ARC with STEP and CGYRO | Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Alex Creely | University-UCSD |
| Machine learning assisted prediction of tungsten heavy alloy plasma facing component performance for fusion energy applications | Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Dina Yuryev | University-MIT |
| Assessing ELM mitigation by pellet triggering in SPARC low-collisionality discharges | Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Christopher Chrobak | ORNL |
| Agile design workflow for plasma-facing fusion components with coupled thermofluidic and structural optimization | Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Caroline Sorensen | ORNL |
| Fuel Cycle and Tritium Plant Model for Fusion Pilot Plant | General Atomics | David Weisberg | SRNL |
| Tritium Fuel Cycle Modelling and Optimization to Enable Fusion Pilot Plant Development | General Fusion Corp. | Ryan Guerrero | SRNL |
| Beyond Neoclassical Closures for MHD Simulation of General Fusion Devices via Kinetic Monte Carlo Calculations | General Fusion Corp. | Colin McNally | ORNL |
| Observing Density Evolution During Merging of Plectonemic Taylor states | Helicity Space Corporation | Setthivoine You | University-Swarthmore |
| 3D modeling of the Staged Z-pinch with the FLASH code | Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. | Emil Ruskov | University-Rochester |
| Hard x-ray imaging and characterization of staged z-pinch plasmas in order to exclude ion beams as cause of fusion | Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc | Hafiz Rahman | University-CalTech |
| Electron density profiles on PFRC with USPR | Princeton Fusion Systems, Inc. | Chris Galea | University-UCDavis |
| Evaluating RF antenna designs for PFRC plasma heating and sustainment | Princeton Fusion Systems, Inc. | Michael Paluszek | PPPL |
| Stabilizing PFRC plasmas against macroscopic low-frequency modes | Princeton Fusion Systems, Inc. | Stephanie Thomas | PPPL |
| Performance-structure characterization to improve REBCO Fusion conductor production at SuperPower | SuperPower Inc | Yifei Zhang | University-FSU |
| Development of a High-Flux Inductive Spheromak Gun for FRC Formation via Counter-Helicity Merging | TAE Technologies, Inc. | Hiroshi Gota | PPPL |
| THz Radiation Generation to Enable Internal Magnetic Field Measurement of Burning Plasmas | TAE Technologies, Inc. | Ales Necas | University-Rochester |
| FLARED — Flowing Lithium’s Adsorption and Release Experiment for Deuterium | Tokamak Energy, Inc. | Mark Koepke | University-UIUC |
| Simulation of Direct-Drive Hybrid Using Two Opposed Beams for Inertial Fusion Energy | VWG Inc. dba Xcimer Energy | Conner Galloway | University-Rochester |