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Update on National Academy Review of IFE

Dale Meade

Fusion Innovation Research and Energy®

Princeton, NJ

ARIES Pathway Project MeetingApril 5, 2011

Bethesda, MD

Three ICF/IFE DOE Reviews are in Progress

1. National Academy Review of Inertial Fusion Prospects for Power

2. Review of ICF Target Physics for #1- a classified panel to respond to requests from IFE Committee

3. Review of National Ignition Campaign - Headed by Koonin- Quarterly reviews by about 10 individuals who submit individual reports Koonin who then issues a summary report

- Summary reports are on FIRE (search top page for Koonin, or Campaign)

In addtion, there is an upcoming EPRI Review that will review all fusion approaches. The title is Fusion Energy for Power Production: Status Assessment, Identification of Challenges and Strategic Plan for Commercialization . The first Workshop scheduled for April 13 has been postponed until late June or early July.

Charge to NAS Review of ICF/IFE

National Academy Committee to Review IFE (Task 1)

Ronald C. Davidson, Co-Chair, Princeton University Gerald L. Kulcinski,† Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison Charles Baker, University of California, San Diego [Retired]Roger Bangerter, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Retired]Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester Jan Beyea, Consulting in the Public Interest Robert L. Byer, Stanford UniversityFranklin Chang-Diaz, Ad Astra Rocket Company Steven C. Cowley, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Richard Garwin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center David Hammer, Cornell University Joseph S. Hezir, EOP Group, Inc. Kathyrn McCarthy, Idaho National Laboratory Lawrence T. Papay, PQR, LLC Ken Schultz, General Atomics Andrew M. Sessler, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory John Sheffield, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Thomas Anthony Tombrello, Jr, California Institute of Technology Dennis G. Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jonathan S. Wurtele, University of California, Berkeley Rosa Yang, Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

Main Committee has held Three Meetings

1. Dec 16 -18, 2010, NAS Hdqtrs, Washington DCreports on DOE Perspectives, and previous reviews of IFE

2. Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2011 San Ramon/Livermore CALIFE/LLNL, Omega/LLE, KrF/NRL, Z/Sandia, .....

3. March 29-Apr 1, Albuquerque, NM, SandiaNIC, NIF after NIC, LIFE Delivery,

Scheduled

4. June 15-17, Rochester NY, LLE

5. TBD, Washington, DC NRL

Agendas and Presentations are on the FIRE web site

http://fire.pppl.gov/icf_nas_review_2010.html

Potential LIFE Design Points (evolving)

High Low

concern

ITER

TFTR

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Economic Competitiveness is the Metric for Chu and Koonin

• Secretary Chu at PPPL Oct 2010 - “A nuclear power plant at 6-9$B is problematic for the nuclear power industry. With ITER costing ~ $20B, what are the prospects for magnetic fusion?”

• Koonin made a similar comment at the March 2010 FESAC meeting. We responded by citing the ARIES study results.

• How do we strengthen our response to this question? Related to the Mountain of Death problem mentioned before?

Physics Today, March 2010