RING OF FIRE NGC 3132 Can
We "Bring a Star to Earth?"
Forum on the Future of Fusion
Fusion Power Associates
November 19-21, 2003
Updated April 22, 2004
Many of the presentations have been collected and are posted below.
These repesent work in progress and should not be quoted without
permission from the author. Questions should be directed to the
authors.
Washington Perspective
- Fusion at the Department of
Energy R. Orbach, Director of the Office of Science, DOE
- Fusion and National Science and Technology Policy, J. Patrick
Looney, OSTP
- Perspective from OMB J.
Parriott, OMB (68 kB, pdf)
- Science, Technology and International Relations, George
Atkinson, Science Advisor US State Department
ITER
- Status of ITER Bill Spears,
ITER Project (10 MB, ppt)
- Overview of U.S. Preparations for
ITER Ned Sauthoff, U.S. ITER Planning Office (0.5 MB,
ppt)
- U.S. Science Interests in
ITER Gerald Navratil, Columbia U. (6.5 MB, pdf)
- U.S. Technology Interests in
ITER Charles Baker, UCSD (5.9 MB, ppt)
- U.S. Industry Interests in ITER,
Robert Iotti, CH2M Hill
- ITER as a Step toward Fusion
Power Rob Goldston, PPPL (4.7 MB, ppt)
Burning Plasma Physics and Magnetic Fusion
- Report of NRC Burning Plasma
Assessment Committee, John Ahearne, Sigma Xi
- The U.S. Burning Plasma Program
Stewart Prager, U. Wisc (112 kB, ppt)
- Status of FIRE Dale Meade, PPPL
(4.6 MB, ppt)
- Status of Ignitor Bruno Coppi, MIT
- Frontiers in Magnetic Fusion
Physics Tony Taylor, General Atomics (1.5 MB, pdf)
- Status of Tokamak Research on
C-Mod Earl Marmar, MIT (540 kB, pdf)
Burning Plasma Physics and Inertial Fusion
- Frontiers in high Energy
Density David Meyerhoffer (2.8 MB, pdf)
- Status of NIF, Bruce Warner,
LLNL (44 MB, pdf)
- Status of Heavy Ion Fusion Grant
Logan, LBNL (8.1 MB, pdf)
- Status of HAPL John Sethian,
NRL (19 MB, ppt)
- Status of Z-Pinch Fusion, Craig
Olson, Sandia (5.6 MB ppt)
- Status of Fast Ignition
Research John Kilkenny, GA (10 MB, ppt)
- Status and Plans for Omega Bob
McCrory, U. Rochester (4 MB, pdf)
- A Roadmap for Laser Fusion
Energy Ken Tomabechi, IFE Forum and Yasuji Kozaki Osaka U. (15
MB, ppt)
Fusion Program Overview and Innovative Concepts and
Applications
- Overview of Fusion Energy Sciences
Program John Willis, DOE OFES (5 MB, ppt)
- Overview of NNSA ICF Program,
David Crandall, DOE (1 MB, pdf)
- Overview of Innovative Concepts
Program Bick Hooper, LLNL (5 MB, ppt)
- Status of Spherical Torus
Research M. Peng, ORNL (6 MB, ppt)
- Cleaner, More Efficient Vehicles
Using Plasmatrons, Dan Cohn, MIT (3MB, ppt)
Ring of FIRE, NGC 3132, also called the Eight-Burst Nebula or
Southern Ring Nebula, is a glowing ring of gas formed from the outer
layers of a sun-like star that experienced a cataclysmic explosion.
In this color-enhanced Hubble Space Telescope image, blue corresponds
with the hottest gases, red with the coolest. The star responsible
for this odd structure about 2,000 light-years away is not the bright
one in the middle, but a very faint one just above it.
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