NKP – Magnetic Confinement Fusion National Special Project (2019 annual call)

Total budget to be allocated

Around 270 million RMB

Total projects to be funded

Around 20-25

Specific subjects and topics

1. Research on early warning, control and mitigation of high specific voltage discharge rupture for fusion reactors;
2. Experimental research on fast particle physics in high-performance plasma for fusion reactors;
3. Study on compatibility between high performance steady-state operation mode and small amplitude edge local mode (ELM) for fusion reactors;
4. Experimental verification of steady state operation mode in dimensionless normalized parameter regions of fusion reactor plasma;
5. Theoretical and simulation study on magnetic fluid processes in deuterium-tritium fusion plasma;
6. Theoretical and simulation study on constraint improvement of deuterium-tritium fusion plasma, based on nonlinear cyclokinetic theory;
7. Research on key technologies of long pulse high-power RF quadrupole;
8. Study on some key problems in the physical process of scraping layer / divertor in high-parameter tokamak devices; (*)
9. Study on some key problems of platform-based physics in fusion reactors; (*)
10. Study on preparation and sealing technologies for large size optical diamond; (*)
11. Study on hydrogen isotope retention / penetration behavior in fusion reactor materials under irradiation damages. (*)

Topics marked with (*) encourage young scientists to be proposed as PIs (less than 35 years’ old). Up to 5 projects will be funded for each topic.

Requirements

General requirements applying to all NKPs (see corresponding section in this page).

Additional requirements for this specific NKP include:

1. Project implementation period is 5 years.

Date of publication

20 November 2020

Application deadline

8 January 2020

Useful links

Original call (in Chinese, copy-paste in browser)

Previous call for comments (July 2019)

More detailed factsheet on National Key R&D Programmes