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Fusion Featured at AAAS Meeting

February 18, 2004

The recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle featured a session of invited talks on burning fusion plasmas on February 13.

The talks included:

Burning Plasma Science, The Challenge and Opportunities, by G. Navratil (Columbia University)

Turbulence and Transport in Burning Plasmas, by G. Hammett (Princeton University)

Astrophysical Thermonuclear Plasmas, by R. Rosner (University of Chicago)

Exploration of Fusion Plasmas Using Integrated Simulations, by J. Dahlburg (Naval Research Laboratory) and Dale Meade (PPPL)

Inertial Confinement Fusion, Physics of Ultra-high-energy Density Plasmas and a Potential Energy Source on Earth, by M. Tabak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

The Burning Plasma Experiment in Magnetic Fusion: What it is and how to do it, by S. Prager (University of Wisconsin)

The talks are posted on Fire (http://fire.pppl.gov)