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A Burning Plasma is Needed to Test the Standard Model of Tokamak Transport,
by Dr. Gary Staebler
General Atomics
10 April 2002"Plasma transport theory has come a long way since the first burning plasma experiments were proposed."
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Why the US Should Join ITER - A European's Perspective,
by Dr. Richard J Buttery, UK
20 March 2002"A power plant scale experiment is a vital step in the route towards fusion power. ITER is the machine that addresses this need - now is the crucial time to ensure it goes ahead. ..."
- The Case Against ITER,
- Build a Standard Model Before a Burning Plasma,
- Questions and Issues Raised by the Prospects of a Burning Plasma Experiment,
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We
Have an Opportunity to Make Significant Progress in Fusion,
by Dr. Clement Wong,
General Atomics
26 February 2002"...We have an opportunity to make significant progress in fusion. It is necessary for some of us to take the tokamak advocacy position to find the most suitable normal conducting burning plasma machine for the US and possibly offering it as another international machine to complement ITER and Ignitor."
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LiWalls
and betatau of the fusion reactor strategy,
by Dr. Leonid E. Zakharov,
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,
25 February 2002"...The next step in fusion is the first step into reactor physics. It has a different logic than plasma physics experiments..."
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Strong
alternate-concept research is politically essential to sell a Burning Plasma
Experiment,
by Dr. Richard E. Siemon,
Fusion Energy Sciences Program Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory
20 February 2002"...No matter how clearly we are told "no next-step tokamak" we seem to comeback again and again..."
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The
Need to Clearly Articulate the Science of a Burning Plasma Experiment,
by Dr. Edmund J. Synakowski,
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
20 February 2002"...[A] significant opportunity, and deep obligation, resides in developing a clear articulation of the scientific value and goals of a burning plasma experiment... [This] is the most significant opportunity presented by the Snowmass meeting, ..."
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Suggestions
for Obtaining a Consensus on a BPX,
by Dr. Jay Jayakumar,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
13 February 2002"... leadership should declare unequivocally that Snowmass is and will be the prime if not the only process of negotiating a consensus and initiating action ... BPX program should be international in scope and participation."
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Thinking
Out Loud About Snowmass,
by Dr. Pete Politzer,
General Atomics
6 February 2002"...It is the fact that the fusion "community" appears to be getting its collective act together that's important..."
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Ignition:No/Hybrid:Yes,
by Dr. Wallace Manheimer,
Naval Research Laboratory
5 February 2002"...putting such a large amount of resources into such an ignition experiment is a bad mistake...there is a much better strategy for the fusion program...the fusion/fission hybrid..."
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A
Perspective on the US Fusion Program,
by Dr. C. Spencer Pitcher,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 February 2002"...the US should rejoin ITER as soon as possible...a global scientific endeavor and a long-term energy solution for mankind's long-term problems of energy supply and global pollution..."
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Decision
Makers,
by Charles L. Neumeyer Jr.,
Princeton Univeristy, Plasma Physics Laboratory
31 January 2002"...engineers should be part of the decision making..."
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Core
Competency in Engineering,
by Charles L. Neumeyer Jr.,
Princeton Univeristy, Plasma Physics Laboratory
31 January 2002"...decisions concerning the future direction of the US program must consider the domestic community of engineers who design fusion devices, who comprise an important element of the core competency of the US program. If a path forward does not materialize soon, critical mass will be lost in this area..."
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Burning Plasma Experiment in a Fusion Energy Sciences Program,
by Dr. David E. Baldwin,
General Atomics
July 2001"...burning plasma research should be viewed as a natural culmination of decades of fusion research, as an exciting opportunity to explore the whole new class of self-heating phenomena, and as a compelling step in fusion's energy mission..."
by Dr. Wallace M. Manheimer,
Naval Research Laboratory
7 March 2002
"...too much time and effort will be gobbled up with international squabbles and negotiations ... the best approach to fusion is at the national level ..."
by Dr. Robert F. Heeter,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
6 March 2002
" ... We have built our own Tower of Babel: a world of lab-specific, machine-specific and concept-specific experiments, data, theories and codes... we need to build a rigorous, shared scientific foundation for our whole field: our own Standard Model ..."
by Dr. Martin Greenwald,
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
6 March 2002
" ... Can we articulate a clear and compelling mission for a BPX which can convince the general scientific community and the government in addition to the members of our own community?...Is a BPX the best device for the science we need to do now? ..."