Fusion is one of the critical technologies that, if successful, would be a game-changer for addressing these issues.
We need all the clean technology we can get, as soon as is humanly possible. In a world fighting the dangers of climate change and with increasing energy demands from developing economies around the world, we simply don’t have the time to wait.
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One of the topics is how to smooth the path to commercialization – so that once the technology is ready to go, it can scale up quickly.Įnergy technologies are notoriously slow to make their way between proof-of-concept and commercialization, averaging about 30-50 years (Figure 1). This week – Scott Hsu, the head of the new initiative, is hosting a workshop to get input on the public-private partnerships, a key element of the decadal strategy. Private sector innovators and investors have gotten in gear – raising over $4 billion total, with about $2 billion in 2021 alone, aiming towards proof-of-concept demonstrations before the end of the decade.Īt the White House Fusion Summit co-hosted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Energy, Secretary Granholm announced the creation of a department-wide initiative to launch a bold decadal action plan for accelerating the development of fusion energy. Īnticipating these coming breakthroughs, the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee and the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, recommended that the government accelerate its research and development programs to develop a fusion pilot plant. China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) sustained fusion reactions for 17 minutes at 126 million degrees Fahrenheit – five times hotter than the sun.Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California achieved an energy yield eight times higher than its previous record and reached the cusp of ignition, providing us a second fusion approach with similar physics performance as the tokamak, and.the Joint European Torus (JET) in the UK doubled its 24-year-old record with a five-second, high-power pulse, limited only by the experimental hardware and not the plasma stability ,.the first central-solenoid magnet was delivered for the international collaborative fusion experiment ITER, illustrating fusion-scale manufacturing capability of U.S.fusion company demonstrated its prototype 20-tesla high-temperature-superconducting magnet, opening up an exciting new high-field, compact approach to commercial fusion energy , But as we heard at the White House Fusion Summit in March, this past year was a banner year for fusion – with major technical achievements in fusion technology coming in fast succession: What?! A path to commercialization of fusion energy? Fusion energy – that powers the stars – hasn’t yet been developed here on Earth in a way that produces more energy than it takes to sustain the fusion reaction. Energy Team, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
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