US/Japan Workshop on Power Plant Studies and Advanced Technologies with EU participation
October 9-11, 2003, UC San Diego

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Thursday, 9 October 2003

 
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Opening Remarks C. Baker (UCSD)
9:15 Meeting Logistics F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
 

INERTIAL FUSION POWER PLANT STUDIES (Chair: Y. Ogawa)

9:25 Overview of US Power Plant Studies: ARIES-IFE and ARIES Compact Stellarator Studies (Pdf,Power Point) F. Najmabadi (UCSD)
10:10 An Overview of the Fluid Dynamics Aspects of Liquid Protection Schemes for IFE Reactor Chambers (Pdf,Power Point) S. Abdel-Khalik (Georgia Tech)
10:55   Break
11:15 Preliminary Experiment on Protection of Final Optics in Wet-Wall Laser Fusion Reactor (Pdf,Power Point) T. Norimatsu (Osaka U.)
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Mechanisms of Aerosol Generation in Liquid-Protected IFE Chambers (Pdf,Power Point) M. Tillack (UCSD)
 

Demo and Advanced Technologies (Chair: R. Raffray)

2:00 Conceptual Study on a Fusion Power Reactor for Early Demonstration of Electric Power Generation (Pdf,Power Point) Y. Asaoka (CRIEPI)
2:45 Break
3:00 Evaluation of Fusion During 21th Century as Primary Energy (Pdf,Power Point)
COE of Renewables: (Pdf)
M. Sato (JAERI)
 
3:45 Tour of UCSD Laser-Material Laboratory
 
5:00 Adjourn
 

 

Friday, 10 October 2003

 
8:30 Coffee
 

Helical Power Plant Studies (Chair: L. Waganer)

9:00   Key Issues in LHD-type Reactor FFHR and Present Design Activities (Pdf, Power Point) A. Sagara (NIFS)
9:45   Status of Physics and Configuration Studies of ARIES-CS (Pdf, Power Point) T.K. Mau (UCSD)
10:30 Break
10:50 System Code Analysis on Plasma Performance in Helical Reactors (Pdf, Power Point) Y. Ogawa (U. Tokyo)
11:35 Scoping Studies of Fusion Power Core Engineering and Maintenance Options for ARIES-CS (Pdf, Power Point) R. Raffray (UCSD)
12:20 Lunch
1:40 Ignition Characteristics of a D-3He Helical Reactor (Pdf, MSWord) O. Mitarai (Kyusyu Tokai U.)
 

Advanced Technologies (Chair: A. Sagara)

2:25 Achieving High Availability in Tokamak Power Plants (Pdf, Power Point) L. Waganer (Boeing)
3:10 Break
3:30 Materials Development and Design Effort for V/Li Blanket in Japan (Pdf, Power Point) T. Muroga (NIFS)
4:15 Crack Allowance on the MHD Coating (Pdf, Power Point) D.K. Sze (UCSD)
5:00 Adjourn
 

 

Saturday, 11 October 2003

 

Socioeconomic Studies (Chair: F. Najmabadi)

8:30 Coffee
9:00   Results of The European Power Plant Conceptual Study (Pdf, Power Point) I. Cook (UKAEA)
9:45 Role of Nuclear Fusion in Energy and Environment (Pdf, Power Point)
Referecned Articles:
AGCI (Pdf) Science Vol. 298 (Pdf) Science Vol. 300 (Pdf)
K. Tokimatsu (RITE)
10:20 Break
10:40 Current View of the US Energy Strategy and How Fusion May Contribute (Pdf, Power Point) L. Waganer (Boeing)
11:20   Results of the European SURF-3 Programme, and Update on IEA Task 7 (Pdf, Power Point) I. Cook (UKAEA)
12:00 Workshop Adjourn

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