DIII-D 5 Year Program Planning for 2019-24

Brainstorming at various levels is beginning, both amongst the DIII-D leadership and groups within Experimental Science and BPMIC. These are considering various strategic questions, high level research directions to emphasize, and associated requirements of resources, including major hardware developments.

A community Long Range Planning Workshop is planned for Dec 1-2, 2016 at General Atomics (Rm 15-019). For offsite visitors wishing to attend who do not have an active GA badge, please contact Anastasia Nycum  to organize onsite access. Remote participation will also be made available.

Links for submitting both strategic input (high level views about the role of DIII-D in the world and US fusion programs in the 2019-2024 period) and more specific research ideas (particular activities and areas of research emphasis) can be found in the navigation bar to the left. Requests for time to speak at the Long Range Planning Workshop can be made at the time of submission. Further details on the format for such presentations will be provided shortly.

Useful Reference Documents and Further Sites

You should regard these as informational and providing recent context for possible program directions and emphasis.

• Internal website for document sharing as we prepare plan and PAC
• Official presentation of 2014-18 5 year plan to review committee
• PAC presentations
  • 2016 PAC presentations (Strategy on transient control and advanced divertor /PMI solutions)
  • 2015 PAC presentations (Strategy on boundary/PMI and steady-state/AT)
  • 2012 PAC talks
• FESAC presentations (2014) on long range plans for DIII-D
  • DIII-D National Fusion Program Research Directions (Hill)
  • US Fusion Program Strategy in the ITER Era (Taylor)
  • DIII-D 10-Year Vision: Developing the Scientific Basis for the Burning Plasma Era and Fusion (Wade)
    • File:FESAC-SPpaperInitiatives-Mickey Wade.pdf
  • Establishing the Physics Basis for Sustaining a High β Burning Plasma in Steady-State (Buttery)
    • File:FESAC White Paper_Luce2.pdf Luce wrote up common white paper for Buttery and Petty
  • Establishing the basis for sustained tokamak fusion through stability control and disruption avoidance (Strait)
    • File:FESAC-SPpaperInitiatives-Mickey Wade.pdf
  • Preparing for Burning Plasma Operation and Exploitation in ITER (Petty)
    • File:FESAC White Paper_Luce2.pdf Luce wrote up common paper for Buttery and Petty
  • Developing Plasma-Based Divertor Solutions for Next-Step Fusion Devices (Guo)
    • White paper by Houyang Guo
  • Crossing the Threshold to Prediction-Driven Research and Device Design (Snyder)
• FES community Workshop Reports
  • Report of the Transients Workshop
  • Report of the Plasma Materials Interactions Workshop
  • Report of the Integrated Simulations Workshop
• FES 10 year perspective and strategic plan
• Previous 5-year plan document