Another academy fusion review begins.The U.S. Department of Energy has asked the National Academies to conduct another review of aspects of the U.S. fusion program -- this time by a "Burning Plasma Assessment Committee." The Academy completed a review in April 2001 of the "quality" of the U. S. fusion energy sciences program. The Committee is co-chaired by John Ahearne and Raymond Fonck. Ahearne is director of the Sigma Xi Center in Raleigh, NC. He is a physicist and member of the National Academy of Engineering, is a former chairman of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. and served for a time as a deputy assistant secretary at the U. S. Department of Energy. From 1972 to 1977 he served as an assistant secretary at the U. S. Department of Defense. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. Fonck is a professor and senior fusion research scientist at the University of Wisconsin. The charge to the Committee has three components: 1. An assessment of the importance of a burning-plasma experimental program to fusion energy sciences and technology and the development of fusion as an energy source, plasma physics, and science in general. 2. An assessment of scientific and technical readiness to undertake a burning plasma experimental program. 3. An independent review and assessment of the plan for the U. S. magnetic fusion burning plasma experimental program as developed by the Department of Energy through the FESAC and Snowmass processes. The committee will make recommendations on the program strategy aimed at maximizing the yield of scientific and technical understanding as the foundation for the future development of fusion as an energy source. The criteria for judging experiments "will include the prospects for achieving technical objectives, extracting scientific and technological understanding and making progress of broad and generic applicability, and contributing to the next steps in the experimental program." The Committee will function under the auspices of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies, National Research Council. It will meet for the first time September 1748 in Washington, DC. It aims for a "Progress Report" in December 2002 and a final report sometime in 2003. The Committee begins its review just as a FESAC panel, under the chairmanship of Prof. Stewart Prager (U. Wisconsin), completed its review of the same topic (see story above). The members of the committee are: John F. Aheame, co-chair, Sigma Xi Raymond Fonck, co-chair, University of Wisconsin John N. Bahcall John Norris Bahcall (December 30 1934 – August 17 2005) was an American astrophysicist. He is best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced , member, Princeton University Gordon A. Baym, member, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific Stephen C. Cowley, member, Imperial College London History Imperial College was founded in 1907, with the merger of the City and Guilds College, the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science (all of which had been founded between 1845 and 1878) with these entities continuing to exist as "constituent colleges". Edward A. Frieman, member, SAIC Walter Gekelman, member, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. Joseph Hezir, member, EOP Group, Inc. William M. Nevins, member, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. Ronald R. Parker, member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, Claudio Pellegrini, member, University of California, Los Angeles Burton Richter, member, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Clifford M. Surko, member, University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. Tony S. Taylor, member, General Atomics Michael A. Ulrickson, member, Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New Michael Charles Zarnstorff, member, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Ellen Gould Zweibel, member, JILA, University of Colorado A link to the web site describing the Committee's charge, membership and planned work schedule has been posted at http://fire.pppl.gov |
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