Fusion Technology Summary Report

Jean Paul AllainIEEE-NPSS AdCom Meeting

July 19, 2014

Paris, France

Highlights of progress on SOFE 26• The 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering will be co-

located with the PPC (Pulsed Power Conference) and held in Austin, Texas between May 31 and June 4, 2015– SOFE-26 General chair: Jean Paul Allain and Technical Program

chair: Mark Tillack, UC San Diego

– PPC General chair is Mark Crawford and Technical Program Chair: David Wetz, UT-Arlington

• MOU signed in late March 2014 between Fusion Technology Committee and Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee

• Contract with IEEE-MCE services finalized in April 2014

• Mark Tillack finalized SOFE-26 Technical Program Committee in early June 2014

• Conference logo and advertising material finished and being distributed at various meetings this summer and fall

Highlights of progress on SOFE 26• The SOFE-26 Technical Committee (Headed by Mark

Tillack)

• A balance on emergent technologies and more conventional work in fusion has been designed for the overall technical program for SOFE-26. Technical areas include:

– Magnets, power supplies, Next-step devices, Plasma-facing components, High-heat flux components, ITER blankets, tritium handling, experimental fusion devices, stellarators, IFE technology, Innovative divertor solutions, Plasma-material interactions, blankets, structural materials

• A mini-course is also being designed around several high-demand areas in fusion engineering (e.g. PMI and innovative divertor concepts)

Engaging Asia and Europe on fusion engineering and technology areas

• Allain and Tillack have engaged with Chinese Fusion Institutes:

• Purpose: To sustain the increasing levels of participation of Chinese fusion engineers in SOFE given the increased activities in tokamak devices there

• Actions:

• FTC to invite Dr. Xuru Duan, Director from the Center for Fusion Science at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, China to join FTC.

• We have also invited Jiming Cheng (Southwestern Institute of Physics) and Yuntao Song (Inst. of Plasma Phys. Chinese Academy of Science) to join SOFE-26 technical program committee

• Created an ad-hoc committee chaired by Hutch Neilson with Tillack and Allain as members along with our Chinese colleagues to study the possibility of holding SOFE-27 in China

• Allain also visited with European institutions and major fusion centers in June for their participation in SOFE-26 and representation in the FTSC

• Visits included: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane (Center for Plasma Physics), ITER headquarters in Cadarache, France, and the CNA in Sevilla, Spain

2014 Fusion Technology Award Winner: Dr. Felix Schauer

• 2014 Fusion Technology Award Nominations were received February 15, 2014 and voting by members finalized and discussed by April 2014

• Citation: “In recognition of his many outstanding contributions to fusion engineering and superconducting magnet technology, in particular relating to the design and construction of the stellarator experiment Wendelstein 7-X and design of the stellarator reactor HELIAS 5-B”

• Since 2005 Dr. Schauer serves as head of the W7-X engineering division at IPP Greifswald and a member of the project board. His team is tasked with conception, development, FE analyses, tests, and instrumentation of W7-X components, as well as with evaluation of design changes and non-conformities during assembly of the stellarator.