FPN08-47

DOE Cancels Aug 4-5 FESAC Meeting

July 31, 2008

The scheduled August 4-5 public meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has been cancelled. The reason given is that several of the members would be unable to attend and that the DOE approval process for five proposed new members would not be completed in time for the meeting.

In addition, it was learned that DOE rules require the current chairman, Stewart Prager (U. Wisconsin) to step down in light of his plans to become Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in the Fall.