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... identified research pri orities for magnetically confined plasma research in the United States. In order to reach its conclusions and recommendations, the study gathered input from academia, government, and industry through numerous white papers, town halls, and site visits.
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... The committee obtained valuable input from a broad range of stakeholders, including DOE agency staff, congressional aides, regulators, power plant owners, developers of fusion power plants, manufacturers of components, national laboratory leaders, and uni versity researchers and professors, to address the statement of task. Relative to the Burning Plasma report, this committee took a somewhat different approach to examine pathways to a pilot plant by reviewing the implications of the changing electrical landscape on how fusion can contribute to the national energy needs and taking into account that private industry is looking at a broad range of fusion concepts.
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... This plan is more aggressive, thus higher risk, than that in the ­Burning Plasma report, since it is motivated by the needs of the electrical marketplace to make significant investments in low-carbon and non-carbon emission electricity. This results in the following conclusion: Conclusion: Successful operation of a pilot plant in the 2035-2040 timeframe requires urgent investments by DOE and private industry -- both to resolve the remaining technical and scientific issues and to design, construct, and com mission a pilot plant.
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