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January 31, 2019

• Announcements
• Director's Corner
          • 10th ITER International School
          • USBPO leadership
          • Progress at ITER
          • ITER Research Plan
• Calendar for Burning Plasma Events
• Contact and Contribution Information

Webinars

Completed Webinars

Upcoming, February 21, 2019: Predicting the pedestal in a burning plasma: Progress and research needs/
The 'pedestal' or edge transport barrier is a feature of improved confinement regimes, including the H-mode regime planned for ITER and most burning plasmas. It is now clear that this narrow outer region strongly influences the core profiles and thus fusion performance, and is also closely linked to the SOL and divertor plasma. At the time of the ITER decision, large uncertainties in the prediction of pedestal height led to great variation in predicted performance. Great progress has been made in recent years, as summarized in the recent NAS report on burning plasmas. Phil Snyder is an expert in the field who has been instrumental in improving models, comparing with worldwide experiments, and using understanding to predict and access improved regimes. He will summarize this progress, and also several important remaining questions requiring further research for more complete prediction in the conditions and regimes expected on a burning plasma.

Date: Thursday, Feb 21st, 2pm EST (1pm CST, noon MST, 11:00am PST)

We hope you can participate; connection information is below. Please forward this announcement to colleagues and students, and encourage them to join USBPO for information about future seminars.

Amanda Hubbard
USBPO Deputy Director

We will use Zoom for audio, video and slide, http://zoom.us . Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:

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Those groups who need to use an H.323 room system should contact Brandon Savage bsavage@psfc.mit.edu or Joshua Stillerman jas@psfc.mit.edu in advance. We can support a limited number of such connections and want to make sure enough are available. Brandon or Josh can also answer other technical questions on the day. We will set up about 15 minutes in advance for anyone who wishes to test their connection.

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January 25, 2019: NAS report on a Strategic Plan for Burning Plasma Research,
Summary and discussion of NAS panel report on A Strategic Plan for US Burning Plasma Research.

Task Groups

Completed Tasks

U.S. Fusion Outreach Group
Please join the U.S. Fusion Outreach Team! This group is organized by the U.S Burning Plasma Organization (USBPO) to provide a platform for national fusion outreach efforts to unite.
Disruption Task Group Leaders: Valerie Izzo (UCSD) and Robert Granetz (MIT)
The task group exists to coordinate US-wide disruption research efforts (both experiment and theory), to identify gaps and suggest priorities, and particularly to ensure that outstanding issues for the ITER Disruption Mitigation System are addressed in a timely manner. The US ITER Project Office has the responsibility to provide ITER's DMS.

Spotlights on Burning Plasma Research

Featured Report on W7X

The Wendelstein 7 X stellarator achieved its First Plasma milestone on 10 December 2015. The accuracy of the magnet system was verified by electron-beam field mapping and expected island structures were observed. The first plasma consisted of Helium and reached about 1 million degrees Celsius. (Photos: IPP)