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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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