LEADER 04755nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910969753103321 005 20251116141121.0 010 $a0-309-18319-7 010 $a0-309-50269-1 035 $a(CKB)110986584753302 035 $a(EBL)3375429 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000106799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140630 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10110234 035 $a(PQKB)10651884 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3375429 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3375429 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10038703 035 $a(OCoLC)923256362 035 $a(BIP)53856002 035 $a(BIP)7162819 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110986584753302 100 $a20010607d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 03$aAn Assessment of the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences program /$fFusion Science Assessment Committee, Plasma Science Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cNational Academy Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (113 p.) 225 1 $aCompass series 300 $a"This project was supported by the Dept. of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER54508"--T.p. verso. 311 08$a0-309-07345-6 327 $a""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Overview: Assessment and Historical Context""; ""2 Scientific Progress and the Development of Predictive Capability""; ""3 Plasma Confinement Configurations""; ""4 Interactions of the Fusion Program with Allied Areas of Science and Technology""; ""A Summary of Committee Meetings""; ""B Funding Data""; ""C The Family of Magnetic Confinement Configurations""; ""D Glossary""; ""E Acronyms and Abbreviations"" 330 $aThe purpose of this assessment of the fusion energy sciences program of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science is to evaluate the quality of the research program and to provide guidance for the future program strategy aimed at strengthening the research component of the program. The committee focused its review of the fusion program on magnetic confinement, or magnetic fusion energy (MFE), and touched only briefly on inertial fusion energy (IFE), because MFE-relevant research accounts for roughly 95 percent of the funding in the Office of Science's fusion program. Unless otherwise noted, all references to fusion in this report should be assumed to refer to magnetic fusion. Fusion research carried out in the United States under the sponsorship of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) has made remarkable strides over the years and recently passed several important milestones. For example, weakly burning plasmas with temperatures greatly exceeding those on the surface of the Sun have been created and diagnosed. Significant progress has been made in understanding and controlling instabilities and turbulence in plasma fusion experiments, thereby facilitating improved plasma confinement-remotely controlling turbulence in a 100-million-degree medium is a premier scientific achievement by any measure. Theory and modeling are now able to provide useful insights into instabilities and to guide experiments. Experiments and associated diagnostics are now able to extract enough information about the processes occurring in high-temperature plasmas to guide further developments in theory and modeling. Many of the major experimental and theoretical tools that have been developed are now converging to produce a qualitative change in the program's approach to scientific discovery. The U.S. program has traditionally been an important source of innovation and discovery for the international fusion energy effort. The goal of understanding at a fundamental level the physical processes governing observed plasma behavior has been a distinguishing feature of the program. 410 0$aCompass series. 606 $aControlled fusion$xResearch$zUnited States 606 $aFusion reactors 606 $aPlasma confinement 615 0$aControlled fusion$xResearch 615 0$aFusion reactors. 615 0$aPlasma confinement. 676 $a621.48 712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bFusion Science Assessment Committee. 712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bPlasma Science Committee. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969753103321 996 $aAn Assessment of the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences program$94463226 997 $aUNINA