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- From: Dieter Britz <ub-gate.UB.com!kemi.aau.dk!BRITZ>
- Subject: DOE budget request, IEEE comment
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:26:33 GMT
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- This is no doubt stale news, but in the latest issue of Fusion Technology,
- i.e. vol. 23, no. 1, January 1993, p.131, there is a statement by the Energy
- Policy Committee of the IEEE on the FY1993 DOE budget request for fusion
- energy. There is to be strong support for an overall package of energy
- technologies including energy conservation and efficiency, electric power
- generation and storage systems, photovoltaics and renewable energy, and
- advanced nuclear fission power as well as fusion power technologies. In the
- last context, both magnetic confinement and inertial confinement fusion are
- to be supported. Cold fusion is conspicuous by getting no mention at all in
- this statement.
- In the same issue of FT, there is a report of the 14th IEEE/npss Symposium on
- Fusion Energy. This might interest some of you, to help get a feel for what
- front-line researchers are saying and doing. I had the feeling that inertial
- confinement fusion (ICF) has been forgotten; this is far from true. It got
- close to $200 million in 1992, and there is a fair amount of comment on it,
- including some allusions to its military interest. Curiously (if you remember
- the postings of Koloc on this group) one of the designs is called Prometheus;
- it's a KrF laser, whatever that means. If you want to get a feel for the
- current fusion scene, chase this paper.
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- Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
- Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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