U.S. Department of Energy, Oakland Operations Office, 1301 Clay Street, Room 700N, Oakland, CA 94612-5208

A -- ADVANCED FUSION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT POC Aundra Richards, Contracting Officer, (510) 637-1901 The Department of Energy (DOE), Oakland Operations Office, intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to General Atomics (GA) to continue research and development activities in the area of advanced fusion technology. This contract will compliment and be integrated with two ongoing DOE funded efforts at GA, research and operation of the DIII-D Tokamak device and advanced toroidal fusion theory studies. This research will permit the US Fusion Program to develop the necessary knowledge base and advance the state of fusion science for economically and environmentally attractive future fusion energy sources. GA will perform tasks in several interdependent areas of fusion technology, integrate that work with recent and ongoing fusion research, and test concepts, where applicable, on the existing DIII-D and other fusion research devices. The four areas of fusion technology are: 1) Advanced design for power plants, nuclear systems and low-activation fusion power plants; 2) Plasma heating and current drive techniques, i.e. Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency (ICRF), Electron Cyclotron Range of Frequency (ECRF), Lower Hybrid Range Frequencies (LHRF), and plasma waves; 3) Advanced plasma fueling systems; and 4) Alternative concept technology development (i.e Inertial Confinement Fusion). An additional fifth task will be GA's continued coordination of International Collaborations. The knowledge gained from the work to be performed by GA will also compliment the engineering design activities for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project currently in progress. **** (0148)

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