Fusion Power Associates 2010 Annual Meeting

Posted by Rezwan on Jan 25, 2011 at 10:06 PM
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It was an honor to be in the presence of so many people on the front lines of fusion:  a veritable “who’s who” of the fusion world.  It’s good to know there are such excellent people working on multiple facets of the fusion problem.  We’d like to see more! 

The presentations below were packed into two short days.  It’s great to have the pdf’s (and some ppt’s) below.

2010 Fusion Energy: Status and Prospects, 31st Annual Meeting and Symposium, Washington, DC

Wednesday December 1, 2010

• Agenda
• Presentation of Awards , - Stephen O. Dean, President, FPA
• Fusion in NNSA – Donald Cook, Deputy Administrator, NNSA
• Status of Experiments on NIF – Ed Moses, LLNL
• Status of ITER – David Campbell, ITER Organization
• Fusion Research in China –  Yuanxi Wan, Inst. Plasma Phys., Hefei, China
• Fusion Perspective from PPPL  – Stewart Prager, PPPL
• Fusion Perspective from U. Rochester – John Soures, U. Rochester
• Status of U.S. Contributions to ITER – Ned Sauthoff, ORNL
• Fusion Perspective from MIT – Miklos Porkolab, MIT
• Fusion Perspective from LANL – Glen Wurden, LANL
• Fusion Perspective from Sandia – Mark Hermann, Sandia
• Developing Technology for Inertial Fusion Energy – David Crandall, U.S. DOE
• Inertial Fusion Ignition Options – Ricardo Betti, U. Rochester
• Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) – Mike Dunne, LLNL
• The Heavy Ion Fusion Option – B. Grant Logan, LBNL
• The KrF Laser Fusion Option – Steve Obenschain, NRL
• Pulsed Power Inertial Fusion Energy – Mike Cuneo, Sandia
• The U.S. Burning Plasma Physics Program – Jim Van Dam, U. Texas
• Plans for the NAS-IFE Review – David Lang, National Research Council
• Fusion Energy Legislation – Adam Rosenberg, House S&T Committee

Thursday December 2, 2010

• Fusion in the DOE Office of Science – William Brinkman, Director
• Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Strategy – Ed Synakowski, OFES
• Inertial Confinement Fusion in NNSA – Allan Hauer, NNSA
• Inertial Confinement Fusion in France – Thierry Massard, CEA, France
• Overview of JET Experiments and Plans – F. Romanelli, EFDA
• Session on Mission and Need for a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility Mission – G. Navratil, Columbia University
• Need for Fusion Nuclear Science and technology Program – Mohamed Abdou, UCLA
• The Spherical Torus Option –  Y-K Martin Peng, ORNL
• The Advanced Tokamak Option  – Ronald Stambaugh, General Atomics
• Magnetic Fusion Pilot Plant Studies – Jon Menard, PPPL
• The Stellarator Option  – Mike Zarnstorff, PPPL
• Role of IAEA in the World Fusion Effort – Richard Kamendje, IAEA
• Overview of Fusion Energy Sciences Program at LLNL – Don Correll, LLNL
• Fusion Perspectives – Dmitri Ryutov, LLNL
• Fast Ignition – Prav Patel, LLNL
• Need for an Inertial Fusion Engineering Test Facility – John Sethian, NRL
• Summary of Innovative Concepts – Simon Woodruff, Woodruff Scientific
• Fusion Parameter Space from First Principles – Irv Lindemuth, U. Nevada
• Implications of Plasma Wall Interactions – Dennis Whyte, MIT
• Fusion Simulation Project – Xianzhu Tang, LANL

Proceedings from previous years are available here.