PSW 2507 Fusion Energy | Javier Garay
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Fusion Energy
Meeting the Engineering Challenges
Javier E. Garay
Associate Dean for Research
Founding Director, Fusion Engineering Institute
UC San Diego
Energy production based on hydrogen fusion reactions has long held the promise of virtually limitless clean energy production. However, the obstacles to realizing this are profound. Fusion reactors have to contain a swirling plasma with a temperature over 100,000,000 degrees C, deal with the production of hot neutrons (in some designs), errant electrons, high neutron fluxes, fuel production, cooling needs and the need to extract heat from the system without poisoning the burning plasma, to name just a few. These challenges are daunting even after decades of effort. However, recent developments in several areas of technology hold new possibilities to realize commercial scale fusion energy production.
The newly formed Fusion Engineering Institute at UC San Diego is specifically focused on addressing the difficult engineering challenges that must be solved so that the promise of affordable, clean fusion energy can be realized through commercially viable fusion power plants. Its mission is to address many of the difficult engineering challenges that are holding back fusion energy as a practical reality; to increase the national fusion energy workforce, to bring together fusion experts in academia, U.S. National Labs, the private sector, and funding agencies and to build and strengthen fusion-engineering collaborations nationally and internationally.
This lecture will discuss current designs for fusion energy production, the main obstacles to realizing them, public and private efforts to overcome them, and the role of the Institute in helping society reach this goal.
Javier Garay is the Founding Director of the UC San Diego Fusion Engineering Institute, and Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Jacob School of Engineering at UC – San Diego.
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Javier also leads the Material Processing and Synthesis Laboratory (AMPS Lab) researching advanced material design, synthesis and processing with particular emphasis on engineering the micro and nanostructure of bulk materials to optimize their properties. The AMPS Lab also develops and maintains capabilities for device design and measuring materials properties, allowing seamless interplay between the design of materials and evaluation of their performance in devices. The lab’s research particularly focuses on understanding the role of the length scale of nano/micro-structural features on light, heat and magnetism, with the objective of developing next generation optical and magnetic devices and energy storage materials.
Javier is an author on numerous scientific publications on materials science and engineering. Among other honors and awards he served as Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering Program at UC – Riverside, was the recipient of two federal Young Investigator Program awards and a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation.
Javier earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and an MS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
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