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Fusion Energy Sciences Network Requirements Review (Final Report)

2022

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Throughout 2021, ESnet and the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) of the DOE SC organized an ESnet requirements review of FES-supported activities. Preparation for these events included identification of key stakeholders: program and facility management, research groups, and technology providers. Each stakeholder group was asked to prepare formal case study documents about their relationship to the FES program to build a complete understanding of the current, near-term, and long-term status, expectations, and processes that will support the science going forward. A series of pre-planning meetings better prepared case study authors for this task, along with guidance on how the review would proceed in a virtual fashion. The FES program has two goals: (1) expand the understanding of matter at very high temperatures and densities and (2) build the knowledge needed to develop a fusion energy source. Providing energy from fusion is one of the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century1, and FES is the largest federal government supporter of research that is addressing the remaining obstacles to overcoming this challenge. Together with its partner science agencies, FES supports a devoted workforce that has made impressive progress since the first fusion experiments over 60 years ago. Progress is made each day by scientists and engineers at DOE national laboratories, at universities, and in private industry. With public financial support for this fundamental research, fusion scientists are undertaking fundamental tests of fusion energy’s viability using some of the most ambitious energy projects, the most powerful supercomputers, and the fastest networks in the world today.

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