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FPA Annual Meeting Presentations Posted

December 16, 2003

Talks presented at Fusion Power Associates November 19-21 annual meeting and symposium, Forum on the Future of Fusion, have been posted at http://fire.pppl.gov/fpa_annual03.html

The talks include a presentation by Office of Management and Budget(OMB) fusion budget examiner, Joel Parriott.

A comprehensive set of presentations were made on the status of ITER and progress on construction negotiations and on the role of burning plasma physics in the U.S. program.

A comprehensive set of presentations were also made on the status of inertial fusion and progress on developing repetitively pulsed drivers for commercial applications.

An overview of innovative concept research was presented and also a paper on the status of spherical torus research.

Overviews of the Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences programs and of the National Nuclear Security Administration's inertial confinement fusion program are also posted.