Fiscal Year 1989 Department of Energy Authorization. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, March 30, 1988
The testimony in hearings before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the Subcommittee on Energy research and Technology to justify the Department of Energy's request for $360 million in 1989 to support its research and development program in fusion energy is recorded herein. The core research program includes theoretical and experimental plasma physics and the development of several fusion devices including the Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The experts in the field of fusion presenting testimony represented the Office of Energy Research, US Department of Energy; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and University Fusion Associates. Statements made by some of the people testifying as well as other experts in the field are appended. All testimony was aimed at the necessity to cut currently planned or undertaken research programs if the $360 million budget item was enacted.
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- 6029376
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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