@article{19c0a4461ae048558e5c26a1f4ea809c,
title = "Realizing the Promise of Fusion Energy: Final Report of the Task Force on Fusion Energy, August 1999",
abstract = "In December 1998, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson asked the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board to form a Task Force on Fusion Energy to conduct a review of the Department's fusion energy technologies, both inertial and magnetic, and to provide recommendations as to the role of these technologies as part of a national fusion energy research program. This report reflects the Task Force's response to the request.",
keywords = "Fusion energy, Secretary of energy advisory committee fusion task force",
author = "Meserve, {Richard A.} and Ira Bernstein and Edward Frieman and Hermann Grunder and Robert Hanflin and Steven Koonin and Lawrence Papay and Stewart Prager and Barrett Ripin and Allen Sessoms",
note = "Funding Information: Magnetic fusion energy (“MFE”) is supported by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (“OFES”), which is part of the Office of Science. The MFE effort was significantly redirected in the mid-1990s so as to broaden the program from a focus on achievement of fusion energy in tokamaks to include an expanded exploration of scientific foundations and of other confinement approaches. The Task Force endorses the revised focus of the program. However, the preservation of a strong and balanced program does present a management challenge in a time of constrained budgets, particularly since a necessary next scientific step is the exploration of the physics of a burning plasma. A device to explore this regime might cost in excess of $1 billion. The fusion community is grappling with this challenge and is seeking to provide advice to the Department as to the logic and strategy for investment.",
year = "2001",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1023/A:1018886030595",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "18",
pages = "85--96",
journal = "Journal of Fusion Energy",
issn = "0164-0313",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "2",
}