Fuel Injection into the Plasma Reactor (ITER)
PI: Roman Samulyak
In international consortium will construct the ITER plasma reactor in Europe for the generation of energy from controlled fusion reactions in a magnetically confined reactor. The US has a lead role for simulation studies in support of this reactor, with centers for this work in Princeton (PPPL) and elsewhere.
One critical step in this program is the injection of deuterium pellets into the interior of the hot plasma, for the purpose of burning, it creating the energy, which is the point of the whoie project. The pellet injection is a primary concern of General Atomics, a subcontractor of the program. At BNL, we are working with world leaders in pellet injection from General Atomics to model in simulation studies this process. Combining their physics understanding with some unique simulation capabilities present at BNL (and SB), we are making fundamental progress in the modeling and design of the pellet injection process. (DOE)