Fusion Program Notes - 2019

FPN Date Title
19-51 December 20 DOE Announces Small Business Funding Opportunities
19-50 December 19 Congress Passes FY 2020 Fusion Budgets
19-49 December 12 Kathy McCarthy Named Director of U.S. ITER Project Office
19-48 December 11 ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor
19-47 December 6 Prof Yican Wu Receives 2 Honors
19-46 November 18 FPA Honors UCLA Professor Emeritus Francis F. Chen
19-45 November 11 ARPA-E Announces Fusion Funding Opportunity
19-44 November 7 Tom Melhorn Retires from US Naval Research Lab Post
19-43 November 5 New Joint German-US Stellarator Project
19-42 November 4 Startup Process for Spherical Tokamaks
19-41 October 29 Richard Buttery Elected APS Fellow
19-40 October 17 ARPA-E Plans to Issue New Fusion Funding Opportunity
19-39 October 4 Presentations from FESAC October 2 Meeting Posted
19-38 October 3 UK to Focus on Fusion Pilot Plant
19-37 October 1 First Poloidal Field Coil Ready to Ship to ITER Site
19-36 September 13 US Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2020 Fusion Funding Bill
19-35 September 13 New Jersey State Senator Introduces Fusion Bills
19-34 August 22 FPA 2019 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Awards Announced
19-33 August 7 Stellarator Advance in Japan's LHD Device
19-32 August 6 ARPA-E Announces Fusion Diagnostic Awards
19-31 August 5 In Memoriam: Romano Toschi
19-30 July 31 Media Release from General Atomics on Fusion Energy Development
19-29 July 16 Physics of Plasmas Remembering Fred L. Ribe
19-28 July 3 US Scientists Find New Higher Performance Tokamak Operating Mode
19-27 June 28 US Fusion Pioneer Fred Ribe Passes, Age 94
19-26 June 18 FPA 2019 Distinguished Career Awards Announced
19-25 June 12 "Fusion Shark Tank" on YouTube
19-24 June 11 Economist Magazine Fusion Podcast, June 5, 2019
19-23 June 6 Jim Van Dam Named Permanent of Head of Fusion Energy Sciences
19-22 June 3 DOE Establishes Fusion Private Sector/Lab Opportunities
19-21 June 3 FPA 2019 Leadership Awards Announced
19-20 May 30 DIII-D at General Atomics Completes Important Upgrades
19-19 May 24 Senate Confirms Chris Fall as DOE Office of Science Director
19-18 May 22 US House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2020 Fusion Funding Bill
19-17 May 17 ARPA-E Seeks Opinions on Fusion Opportunities
19-16 May 16 Fusion Veteran Bob Taylor Passes, Age 84
19-15 April 29 Plasma Theory Lecture Notes Posted
19-14 April 13 FESAC Open Telemeeting April 30
19-13 April 6 JET Secures Funding Through 2020
19-12 March 27 In Memoriam: William E. Drummond
19-11 March 23 President Submits FY 2020 Budget Request to Congress
19-10 March 14 FESAC March 12-13 Meeting Presentations Posted
19-09 March 6 FESAC March 12-13 Meeting Update
19-08 February 11 US FESAC to Meet March 12-13; Also Fusion Day in DC March 14
19-07 February 6 Update on US Fusion Planning Activity
19-06 January 30 FPA 2019 Award Nominations Sought
19-05 January 28 News from MIT
19-04 January 27 JASON Panel reviews ARPA-E Fusion Effort
19-03 January 21 ITER Update
19-02 January 19 Innovative Fusion Approaches Conference May 26-28 in China
19-01 January 7 FPA 39th Annual Meeting Presentations Posted