Current Status of Research and Development in the SAARC Region

The outline of plans for the research and development of an advanced reheat gas turbine under the Moonlight Project (Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and Industry) has already been announced in 1981 at Houston (81-GT-28), while technical problems related to the pilot plant (Paper No. 83-TOKYO-IGTC-117) as well as performance and characteristics (Paper No. 83-TOKYO-IGTC-40) have been announced at the 1983 Tokyo International Gas Turbine Congress. No-load shop tests conducted on the pilot reheat gas turbine during the period of May to July, 1983, were consummated with highly satisfactory results, so this paper is dedicated primarily to giving a description of the shop tests.

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The European roadmap towards fusion electricity

Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.2017.0432 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 377 (2141) ◽

pp. 20170432 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

A. J. H. Donné

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Research And Development ◽

Fuel Cycle ◽

Fusion Energy ◽

Development Programme ◽

Current Status ◽

Fusion Power ◽

First Time ◽

Design Construction ◽

Open Issues

The European roadmap to the realization of fusion electricity breaks the quest into eight missions. For each mission, it reviews the current status of research, identifies open issues, and proposes a research and development programme. ITER is the key facility on the roadmap as it is expected to achieve most of the important milestones on the path to fusion power. The Fusion Roadmap is tightly connected to the ITER schedule and the vast majority of resources in fusion research are presently dedicated to ITER and its accompanying experiments. Parallel to the ITER exploitation in the 2030s, the construction of the demonstration power plant DEMO needs to be prepared. DEMO will for the first time supply fusion electricity to the grid and it will have a self-sufficient fuel cycle. The design, construction and operation of DEMO require full involvement of industry to ensure that, after a successful DEMO operation, industry can take responsibility for commercial fusion power. The European fusion roadmap provides a coherent path towards the fusion power plant, and it proposes in an integrated way to find solutions for all challenges that still need to be addressed. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Fusion energy using tokamaks: can development be accelerated?’

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