Path to Fusion Energy for Concepts Currently at the Concept Exploration Level

摘要

Because of the diversity of the Concept Exploration (CE) experiments within the Innovative Confinement Concept Program, it is useful to consider three example development plans which essentially span the experiments underway or envisioned in the program: Toroidal confinement concepts; Concepts which operate in a very different plasma parameter space; and Non-toroidal concepts which are in the early exploratory stage and which are very different from the tokamak. The report briefly describes the status of the three experimental programs and of existing reactor concepts.