For streaming links see the Fusion Power Associates web page at http://aries.pppl.gov/FPA/fpn16-11.shtml.The Energy Subcommittee of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a hearing on the U.S. fusion program on Wednesday, April 20 at 10 am in room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC.
Scheduled witnesses are ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Director Stewart Prager, and Los Alamos scientist Scott Hsu.
April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
Re: April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
Always ITER and Los Alamos.
No one from the MIT and the UW?!
No one from the MIT and the UW?!
Re: April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
Dr. Scott Hsu wrote a testimony attached to the hearing site, which has good recommendations on how to restore funding to innovative or alternative fusion concepts:
http://democrats.science.house.gov/site ... timony.pdf
http://democrats.science.house.gov/site ... timony.pdf
Re: April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
Adrian Cho has written a summary of the hearing on the U.S. fusion program for Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/ ... ouse-panel
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/ ... ouse-panel
Re: April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
Thanks for posting, good document from Hsu. Unfortunately, it may be too little, too late.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
Re: April 20 House Hearing on the U.S. fusion program
Small fusion efforts are completely ignored in the US. The representatives in the house are as incompetent as they are stupid.