Resource Library

• About this workshop

  • Charge

  • Questions to breakout groups

• Relevant Websites

  • ITER Organization

  • US ITER Project Office

  • DOE Fusion Energy Sciences

  • APS-DPP Community Planning Process

  • Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas (FESAC Long Range Plan subpanel)

  • US Burning Plasma Organization

  • U.S. Fusion Energy (community website)

  • University Fusion Association

  • DIII-D National Fusion Facility

  • The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX‑U)

• Background documents

  • ITER Research Plan (2018)

  • Required R&D in Existing Fusion Facilities to Support the ITER Research Plan (2020)

  • FESAC Long Range Plan report: Powering the Future Fusion & Plasmas: A long-range plan to deliver fusion energy and to advance plasma science (2021)

  • APS-DPP Community Planning Process report (2020)

  • NAS report: Burning Plasma Research (2019)

  • NAS report: Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid (2021)

  • The Agreement on the Establishment of the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization for the Joint Implementation of the ITER Project (2007)

• US Burning Plasma Organization (USBPO) white papers and reports

  • A US ITER Research Team for Full Participation in and Benefit From ITER (2021)

  • U.S. Burning Plasma Organization working group: Modes of Participation in ITER (2015)

  • Report of the Burning Plasma Organization Panel on Planning for US Participation in ITER (2009)

  • Planning for U.S. Fusion Community Participation in the ITER Program (2006)

• Other relevant analyses and information

  • USBPO analysis of Required R&D in Existing Fusion Facilities to Support the ITER Research Plan, highlighting where US strengths could be applied

• Relevant white papers (not from this workshop)

  • APS DPP Community Planning Process

    • C.M. Greenfield, R. Nazikian, G.H. Neilson, N.R. Sauthoff, Full Participation in ITER: The US Fusion Community’s First Opportunity to Study a Burning Plasma at High Gain

    • R. Nazikian, C.M. Greenfield, G.H. Neilson, A national initiative to accelerate ITER research and maximize the US return on ITER

    • R. Nazikian, C.M. Greenfield, D. Boyer, M. Churchill, D. Humphreys, F. Laggner, O. Meneghini, and others, The cup of coffee challenge for fusion and the role of ITER - An addendum to the ITER initiative white papers

    • Hutch Neilson, Full U.S. Participation in ITER in the 2020s

    • F.M. Laggner, Generation ITER - Exciting opportunities for early career researchers and the US fusion program

• Presentations

  • L. Coblentz, Status of the ITER project and a virtual tour of the ITER site (recorded video of USBPO webinar, October 21, 2021)

    • Many other USBPO webinar presentations regarding ITER are archived here.

  • R. Nazikian, A national initiative to accelerate ITER research and maximize the US return on ITER (presented at APS-DPP Community Planning Process, July 22, 2020, Madison, WI)

Just a reminder: White pages submitted for this workshop can be found on the Community Input page