FESAC is chaired by Stewart Prager of the University of Wisconsin.

The Department provided FESAC with a new charge: to "identify issues arising in a path to Demo, with ITER as a central part of that effort."

FESAC is asked to "identify and prioritize the broad scientific and technical questions to be answered prior to a Demo; to assess available means (inventory), including all existing and planned facilities around the world as well as theory and modeling, to address these questions; and to identify research gaps and how they may be addressed through new facility concepts, theory and modeling."

At its March 1-2 meeting, FESAC agreed the charge would include consideration of magnetic "innovative confinement concepts" but would exclude inertial fusion.

FESAC established a panel, under the chairmanship of Martin Greenwald (MIT) to address this charge and to report back by October 1.

The members of that panel have now been appointed. They are:

Martin Greenwald (MIT, chair)
Richard Callis (GA)
Bill Dorland (U.Md.)
David Gates (PPPL)
Jeff Harris (ORNL)
Rulon Linford (LLNL)
Kathryn McCarthy (INL)
Mike Mauel (Columbia)
Dale Meade (PPPL retired)
Farrokh Najmabadi (UCSD)
Bill Nevins (LLNL)
John Sarff (UW)
Mike Ulrickson (SNL)
Mike Zarnstorff (PPPL)
Steve Zinkle (ORNL)

Chairman Greenwald states:
"We've divided into subgroups to gather information that we will need for our deliberations and are currently planning our first meeting. An online discussion board has been set up to hold summaries, comments and documents for the panel. We will shortly be setting up a comparable forum for the broader community and will be soliciting comments and white papers."

Greenwald can be contacted at g@psfc.mit.edu