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Inside the tokamak at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics in San Diego. TNS
The main criticism about nuclear fusion has been that its vast potential as a commercial source of energy has always been just out of reach.
But a group of the nation’s top fusion scientists and researchers just issued a report to the Department of Energy that calls for the United States to build a fusion pilot plant by the 2040s.
The 80-page report, written by the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, was two years in the making.
“What really emerged strongly from this is a real sense that the fusion energy science portfolio should really pivot towards an energy mission and the realisation of that mission is the development and operation of a fusion pilot plant in the 2040s,” said Wayne Solomon, who served as a committee co-chair.
Nuclear fusion group calls for building a pilot plant by the 2040s By Rob Nikolewski, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Published: January 10, 2021, 6:02am
Share: Inside the tokamak at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics in San Diego. DIII-D is the largest magnetic nuclear fusion research facility in the U.S. +(General Atomics/TNS)
The main criticism about nuclear fusion has been that its vast potential as a commercial source of energy has always been just out of reach.
But a group of the nation’s top fusion scientists and researchers just issued a report to the Department of Energy that calls for the U.S. to build a fusion pilot plant by the 2040s. The 80-page report, written by the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, was two years in the making.
Nuclear fusion group calls for building a pilot plant by the 2040s [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-CPT-NUCLEAR-FUSION:SD]
The main criticism about nuclear fusion has been that its vast potential as a commercial source of energy has always been just out of reach.
But a group of the nation’s top fusion scientists and researchers just issued a report to the Department of Energy that calls for the U.S. to build a fusion pilot plant by the 2040s. The 80-page report, written by the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, was two years in the making.
“What really emerged strongly from this is a real sense that the fusion energy science portfolio should really pivot towards an energy mission and the realization of that mission is the development and operation of a fusion pilot plant in the 2040s,” said Wayne Solomon, who served as a committee co-chair. “That (target date) is a line-in-the-sand type of thing.”