DOE Urges National Academies Panel to ‘Be Bold’ in Fusion Strategic Plan

A National Academies panel tasked with developing a multi-decade strategy for magnetically confined burning plasma research held its first meeting on June 5. The head of the Energy Department ’s fusion energy sciences program urged the panel to “be bold” in its report, which will consider scenarios in which the U.S. remains in or withdraws from the long-delayed ITER fusion project.

Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - June 9, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: mhenry Source Type: news