Summary of the Stellarator Technology and Advanced Research Strategies (STARS) Report

ORAL

Abstract

A Stellarator Technology and Advanced Research Strategies (STARS) Report is in preparation as the culmination of a series of stellarator fusion community workshops conducted throughout 2025. This report develops and outlines a set of priority research opportunities, with a corresponding set of strategies, to close remaining science and technology gaps on the path to a stellarator fusion pilot plant (FPP). In addition, the report summarizes the current state of the field in stellarator research as context and motivation for the recommendations from the report. This activity has been sponsored by The Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Science (DoE-FES), and is intended to inform the U.S. stellarator program and the overall FES fusion roadmap. In this presentation the key aspects of the STARS Report will be discussed with an aim to outline a strategy for realization of the stellarator path to fusion energy.

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Presenters

  • Novimir A Pablant

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Authors

  • Novimir A Pablant

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Adelle M Wright

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Diane R Demers

    • Xantho Technologies, LLC

  • Benedikt Geiger

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Walter Guttenfelder

    • Type One Energy Group

  • Matthias Knolker

    • General Atomics

  • D. M. Matthew Kriete

    • Auburn University

  • Bartosz Lomanowski

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Felix I Parra

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Elizabeth J Paul

    • Columbia University

  • Charles P.S. Swanson

    • Thea Energy