Plasma - Interacting Technology Development at DIII-D

Fusion’s critical shift to commercialization requires supportive infrastructure and facilities for testing and rapid learning through iteration. DIII-D’s role is evolving to become a technological test bed, where users can expose fusion materials and technologies (FM&T) to high heat and particle fluxes and reactor relevant plasma conditions. DIII-D is broadly opening its program to private sector partners to test critical plasma interacting technologies and techniques at the facility. The purpose of this talk will be to show the community the utility of DIII-D for closing technology gaps to a Fusion Pilot Plant (FPP), especially in the realms of material testing, control system development, diagnostic development, data training from DIII-D’s data set, and operational best practices. The streamlined process of joining DIII-D’s ecosystem will be discussed as well as an explanation of how to leverage the economic benefits of the DOE’s user facility. Finally, the function of relevant DIII-D modules (e.g., DiMES, databases, PCS) will be explained to show the Fusion Community how to exploit DIII-D resources to expedite research and grow the fusion ecosystem



*Supported by the US DOE under DE-AC05-00OR22725 and DE-FC02-04ER54698.