Los Alamos National Laboratory / General Atomics Corp / Ad Astra Rocket Company / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / SAIC / Energy’s Virtual National Laboratory / Sandia National Laboratory / Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC / Babcock / Inertial Confinement Fusion Energy Systems / IBM / Constellation Energy / Entergy / URS Energy Corp / DOE / Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory / University’s Laboratory / Integrated Solutions / National Ignition Facility Programs Review / Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / Environmental Laboratory / Nuclear Science / Sandia National Laboratories / Bechtel Technology / Bechtel Group Inc. / LLNL / Ginzton Laboratory / ICF / Exelon Corp / US Enrichment Corporation / Wilcox Co / /
Country
United Kingdom / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Labor Issues / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Stanford University / Edison Electric Institute / National Ignition Facility / Technology Idaho National Laboratory / International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor / Fusion Technology Institute / Johnson Space Flight Center / University of California / University of Rochester / University’s Laboratory / Cornell University / Ginzton Laboratory / Nuclear Energy Institute / University of Wisconsin-Madison / /
IndustryTerm
plasma propulsion systems / unclassified computing tools / fusion energy / modest fusion energy sciences program / high energy density physics program / assumed management / technology requirements / eventual travel / fusion target technologies / energy economics / energy research funding / electricity markets / energy / technology thresholds / energy gain / ion beam driver technologies / energy systems analysis / energy-scaling / glass laser technology / scaled energy/wavelength/target regime / technology questions surrounding achievement / fusion energy community / energy trade association / fusion energy research budget request / low-carbon electricity / industrial contractors / energy areas / fusion energy research program / fusion energy program / energy programs / costly fusion energy / clean energy technologies / fission energy systems / energy study / private developer / premature power plant technology development program / laboratory management / energy systems / fusion energy demonstration plant / fusion energy research activities / fusion energy research / /
Organization
University of California / NIF Laser Subcommittee / U.S. Department of Energy / DOE’s office of Fusion Energy Sciences / Ford Foundation / Edison Electric Institute / University of Rochester / Natural Resources Defense Council / Johnson Space Flight Center / Cornell University / UCSD / Energy’s Laboratory Operations Board / Associate Laboratory / Nuclear Regulatory Commission / Energy Advisory Board NIF Laser Task Force / GA’s Fusion Technology Development Department / Fusion Technology Institute / Fusion Advisory Committee / Nuclear Energy Institute / MIT / Livermore’s Directed Research and Development Program Subcommittee / Energy Advisory Board / DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration / office of Science / Fusion Science Center for Extreme States of Matter / DOE’s ICFAC / Congress / Washington Division of URS Energy Corp / Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee / Stanford University / Task Force on the National Ignition Facility / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / PCAST Task Force on Fusion Energy / Facility Advisory Committee / University of Wisconsin / DOE’s office of Fusion Energy / /
Person
Ken Schultz / David Hammer / Roger Bangerter / T. Papay / Christopher Paine / Cowley / Ronald C. Davidson / Matthew McKinzie / Adrian Zacarria / Arjun Makhijani / Frank von Hippel / Zaccaria / Charles Baker / Battelle / Kathyrn McCarthy / Rod Schultz / Franklin Chang-Diaz / Gerald L. Kulcinski / Robert L. Byer / Thomas Cochran / Richard L. Garwin / Joseph Hezir / Stephen Bodner / Erick Lindman / Jan Beyea / Charles Cranfill / Betti / John Rowe / JASON NIF / /
Position
leading critic / vice chairman and director / Sector Vice President / Secretary / head / contractor / provisional co-chair of the Committee / Operations Director of the Energy Group / Director of GA / Assistant Director for Academic Affairs / major contractor / preeminent analyst / astronaut / driver / provisional co-chair / Nuclear Program Director / project manager / Vice President and General Manager / physicist / a principal author / director of that university / consultant / president and Chief Operating Officer / Scientist / independent analyst / founding Director / principal co-manager / physicist / leader / Chairman / Director / senior official / brilliant and versatile younger scientist / Chair / Edward Teller / fusion energy scientist / paid lobbyist for the U.S. / the retired former head of Fusion Energy Research / member / /
Comments of Christopher Paine, Nuclear Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, regarding National Academy of Sciences Review Committee PIN: DEPS-BPA-10-03, “Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion Energy