Final Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix H: Schedule and Budget Implications
Appendix H: Schedule and Budget Implications
Pages 240-250
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a ational program of accompanying research and development leading to n the construction of a compact fusion pilot plant. It also examined the schedule and budget implications of a decision by the United States to withdraw from the ITER Project.
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The total project cost for the United States will be minimal, but the peak annual funding will be $275 million. If ITER construction proceeds more slowly than scheduled, first plasma will occur in 2028.
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contributions to ITER operations will be approximately $40 million. As an ITER member, the United States receives full access to all ITER research; however, the U.S.
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and the fusion nuclear phase using deuterium and tritium fuel (2036-2041)
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Fusion Technology (Materials Research, Magnets, Tritium, Fusion Nuclear Science) Discovery Fusion Science and Technology Theory, Modeling, and Predictive Simulation FIGURE H.2 Notional budget, in FY2018 dollars, implied by the committee's strategic guidance for a national program of burning plasma research.
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The committee's consideration for the budgetary impli cations of the strategic plan assume continued progress in the innovative technologies that lower the cost and fully enable fusion electricity. In addition to the above-mentioned FESAC reports, the committee examined the budget estimates provided in the 2003 report of the FESAC Subcommittee for a Plan for the Development of Fusion Energy,10 the 2016 U.S.
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Provided e the United States remains an ITER partner, the research goal of this new national facility would be to address the divertor and first-wall issues for a compact pilot plant. It would be a major, world-class research facility to resolve critical needs, but it would not be a fusion nuclear facility and would not involve those burning
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fusion community for such a new research facility also considered approaches having reduced costs through the upgrade of some existing research capabilities from the two major fusion user facilities in the United States.15 Engineering systems studies for the compact fusion pilot plant would begin immediately in the U.S. strategic plan.
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As discussed in Chapter 5, in order to establish the science and technology basis for the compact fusion pilot plant, the previously discussed high-power density experiment to establish the physics basis for continuous sustainment of high-power density burning plasma would need to be capable of operation with tritium fuel and designed for the burning plasma studies now envisioned for ITER. The construction and operation of this experiment would be expensive for the United States to undertake alone, but it would be critical for directly addressing the physics of a strongly coupled burning plasma and reducing the key barriers for low-cost fusion energy development.
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Wade, 2018, "A U.S. Strategic Plan for Timely Fusion Energy Development," white paper submitted to the committee; and R.J.
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18 . FESAC Subcommittee, 2013, Prioritization of Proposed Scientific User Facilities, at https://science.
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