The allocations (and purpose as quoted from DOE postings) are as follows:
$20 M
for a new High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma Matter in
Extreme Conditions (MEC) Instrument Project at Stanford Linear
Accelerator (SLAC). Funds will be used to procure and install equipment
for the MEC instrument, including x-ray beam transport system, x-ray
optics and diagnostics, vacuum chamber, short pulse laser, long pulse
laser, diagnostics and control systems.
$11.7 M
for upgrades of the national DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics.
The project will upgrade the auxiliary heating systems, power systems,
core and edge diagnostics, and support new short term postdoctoral
research positions for the added diagnostic capability. The upgraded
systems will significantly increase the scientific productivity,
operational efficiency, and reliability of the experiments. The
upgrades will provide major new tools to the fusion research community
to control and understand fusion plasmas in conditions that are
currently inaccessible. The added capabilities will allow the
facilities to conduct world leading research for many years after this
initial investment. Portions of the funding will be managed by several
DOE laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
($810,000), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ($688,000), Oak Ridge
National Laboratory ($144,000) and Sandia National Laboratories
($75,000).
$11.0 M
for upgrading the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment
(NDCX-II) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Funding will be
provided to increase the energy on target by a factor of 100 for the
Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF) and Warm Dense Matter (WDM) research
communities.
$9.7 M
will be used to fully fund two Plasma Science Centers (PSC) for
their entire five year lifetime. The PSC program started in 2004 with
the objective of establishing academic centers of excellence that will
focus on fundamental issues of widely recognized importance to plasma
science. The PSCs will be supported to perform plasma science research
in areas of such wide scope and complexity that it would not be
feasible for individual investigators or small groups to make progress,
such as plasma turbulence, plasma computational algorithms and
non-linear plasma physics. The PSCs will consist of well-coordinated
collaborative teams of scientists with the wide breadth of knowledge
and skills required to tackle large and complex plasma science
problems.
$7.0 M
will be used to enhance and upgrade several key components of
the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), one of the Nation's key
centers for magnetic fusion energy research at the Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory. The NSTX Research Enhancement/Upgrade Project will
enable timely implementations of key, high priority NSTX facility and
diagnostic upgrades that will result in significantly greater research
productivity.
$4.9 M
will be provided for improvements in infrastructure for
Innovative Confinement Concept (ICC) experiments by upgrading
diagnostics, heating systems, controls, power supplies and other
experimental equipment on existing projects that will significantly
improve their near-term chances of finding better ways to confine
plasmas and to understand the properties of these plasmas.
$5.0 M
will be used to upgrade the Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory's 138KV switch gear, transformers, and associated circuit
breakers.
$5.0 M
will be provided for the Alcator C-Mod Facility Upgrade at MIT.
It will consist of radio frequency (RF) heating and current drive
systems enhancements and several diagnostics systems improvements.
$4.9 M
will be provided to allow the three major fusion facilities
(DIII-D, C-Mod, and N STX) to operate for an additional five weeks each
in the FY 2009/FY 2010 time frame.
$3.9 M
will be provided to improve infrastructure for general plasma
science user facilities by upgrading diagnostics, heating systems,
controls, power supplies and other experimental equipment on existing
projects.
Further details on these and other DOE ARRA projects are posted at:
http://www.energy.gov/recovery/reports.htm
http://www.energy.gov/recovery/documents/DOE_ARRA_Awardees.xls
http://www.energy.gov/recovery/documents/Office_of_Science_Program_Plan.pdf