| Affiliation: | (1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139;(2) University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712;(3) University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14623;(4) General Atomics, San Diego, CA, 92186;(5) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94551;(6) Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08543;(7) Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027;(8) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706;(9) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545;(10) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831 |
| Abstract: | This is the report of a panel set up by the U.S. Department of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) in response to a charge letter on October 5, 2000, from Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, then Director of the DOE's Office of Science. In that letter, Dr. Dresselhaus asked the FESAC to investigate the subject of burning plasma science. The report addresses several topics, including the scientific issues to be addressed by a burning plasma experiment and its major supporting elements, identification of issues that are generic to toroidal confinement, and the role of the Next-Step Options (NSO) Program. |
