Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) Program in Fusion Energy Sciences

摘要

During the 1990s the Office of Fusion Energy (OFE) restructured and adopted joint goals of science and performance. Many small new experiments were commissioned towards the end of the 1990s and a new program was started: the Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) program and has continued into the ITER era. The most basic premise of the ICC Program is to support continued concept innovation in the hunt for an economically attractive fusion reactor while supporting innovation in mainline concepts. This paper summarizes the ICC Program, ICC experiments and outlines some future directions.