A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-led team was awarded $3.4M to develop new alloys for first wall fusion reactors and enable commercial fusion energy through ARPA-E’s Creating Hardened And Durable fusion first Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK) program.
(Download Image)LLNL-led team receives ARPA-E funding for technology to enable fusion power plants
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led team $3.4 million to develop new alloys for first wall fusion reactors and enable commercial fusion energy.
The funding came through ARPA-E’s Creating Hardened And Durable fusion first Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK) program, which aims to explore a promising alloy design space and manufacturing processes to develop next-generation materials that can strengthen a fusion power plant’s first wall, which surrounds the fusion core. The LLNL-led team was one of 13 awarded nearly $30 million in total.
“This team has been selected to join ARPA-E's CHADWICK program in tackling one of the biggest hurdles in commercial fusion energy — developing advanced materials that can withstand the extreme environment inside fusion reactors. The challenge is daunting, but I believe in the team, expertise and tools,” said Aurélien Perron, the principal investigator (PI) and deputy group leader of the Actinides and Lanthanide Science Group. Read More...
