FPN03-15
U.S. Organizes for ITER Negotiations
March 6, 2003
Dr. N. Anne Davies, Associate Director for Fusion Energy Sciences, USDOE,
has announced that she has created "a working mechanism to help us get
started (on participation in ITER negotiations) immediately." She has named
Ned Sauthoff (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) to serve as U.S. ITER
Planning Officer, with Charles Baker (UCSD) as his deputy. They are to
"form a multi-institutional working team of people from around our program
to assist us in meeting these many needs." Mike Roberts at DOE will
oversee the effort, assisted by Warren Marton.
Davies has asked Sauthoff "to assemble a Burning Plasma Program Advisory
Committee to strengthen community involvement in the working team's
activities." Stewart Prager (University of Wisconsin) has been named to
chair that committee.
Sauthoff indicated that he will be setting up a web site to facilitate
community access to the working group's activities.
For further information contact Ned Sauthoff (sauthoff@pppl.gov)