THE DOE HAS AWARDED $14 MILLION IN FUSION RESEARCH funding, the Department of Energy announced on July 29. The funding is for 10 university-led research projects using the Dlll-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility in San Diego, Calif., operated by General Atomics. According to the DOE, the research will focus on high-priority challenges in the magnetic confinement of plasma on the pathway toward the eventual development of a contained, self-sustaining fusion reaction. The research will be performed on the Dlll-D tokamak, the largest magnetically confined plasma facility in the United States. The projects, which were selected by competitive peer review under the DOE funding opportunity announcement "Collaborative Fusion Energy Research in the Dlll-D National Program," range from developing new means of controlling plasma instabilities, to improving diagnostics, to advancing the understanding of the material erosion that takes place inside fusion reactors. Total fiscal year 2019 funding is $6.7 million for projects lasting up to three years in duration, with out-year funding contingent on congressional appropriations. A list of the awards can be found at
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