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[Aeronaut]

Haven’t been able to find any detail on their machine, Aaron, but I did find some policy docs and acronyms to search:

FEAC: Fusion Energy Advisory Committee
OFES: Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
PCAST: President’s Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/377516-KT9ZdT/webviewable/ is the Strategic Plan for the Restructured US Fusion Energy Sciences Program. The first few pages repeat the Executuve Summary while they admit that when times get tough enough, they might look at nearly-commercialized FF as a viable platform to launch the US Fusion Program. So maybe Brian’s right and FF’s intrinsic cubic goodness is all we need to have the world beat a path to FF.

http://other.nrl.navy.mil/EnergyOptions/PFP_Dean/PFP_Dean.pdf Is the NRL’s fusion development blueprint. Note the General Atomics logo at the top.

http://www-ferp.ucsd.edu/najmabadi/TALK/95-99/9606-ANS.pdf is the Project Aries assessment of Tokamak gains over the decades.

http://www.bechtel.com/quick-change_artists.html is a brag page about how well Bechtel swaps out steam generators in a large nuc plant. It gives specifics about the entire project and has some killer pix. Projects like this make FF look like small potatoes, except in the context of repowering coal-fired utilities. The nav bar on top shows how many pies they have their fingers in, btw.