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Appendix D: Federal Support for Plasma Science and Engineering
Appendix D: Federal Support for Plasma Science and Engineering
Pages 230-242
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As an approximation, the committee reports here the most identifiable plasma-related funding. Finally, the following list may be helpful in connecting agency programs with the scientific topics discussed in the report: • DOE's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES)
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• NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate supports plasma research through its Astronomy Division (space and astrophysical plasmas) and its Physics Division (mostly basic plasma science)
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The Partnership for Basic Plasma Science and Engineering program is jointly sponsored by DOE and NSF, to which DOE contributed (in FY2006) $4.7 million for university research, $2.4 million for national laboratory research, $1.3 million for the Junior Faculty Development Program, and $1.1 million for the Basic Plasma Science Facility at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Prog Direction History of DOE/OFES Budget Enabling R&D $800,000 Facility Ops Science $700,000 $600,000 $500,000 $400,000 FY2006 $K $300,000 $200,000 $100,000 $0 85 986 987 988 989 990 991 992 993 994 995 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 19 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 FIGURE D.2 Breakdown of the major components of the OFES annual budget, 1985-2006.
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The President's FY2007 budget further reduced research in heavy-ion-related HED physics to $8.2 million, while the research for fast ignition, plasma jets, and dense plasmas in high fields was reduced to $3.7 million. National Nuclear Security Administration at DOE Established by Congress in 2000, the NNSA is a semiautonomous agency within the U.S.
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and High Yield Campaign, which focuses on developing laboratory capabilities to create and measure extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, and radiation. As shown in Figure D.3, support for the component of the ICF and High Yield Campaign that involves plasma science (primarily HED physics)
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The aggregate average level of annual funding was nearly $7 million. Advanced Accelerator Research and Development Program at DOE/HEP DOE's Office of High Energy Physics (HEP)
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Perhaps 10 percent of this program is devoted to explicit plasma science such as wake field acceleration. In a recent report prepared by the DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP)
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National Science Foundation The NSF has traditionally supported plasma research in a number of different programs because the science cuts across many disciplines. For instance, the study of basic plasma science has traditionally been directed by NSF's Physics Division while much of the low-temperature plasma science and engineering work has been overseen by its Engineering Directorate.
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D.6 DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences does not support low-temperature research except for several grants that cross over into chemistry. Astronomy The NSF Astronomy Division occasionally participates in the NSF/DOE Part nership for Basic Plasma Science and Engineering.
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Based jointly at the Univer sity of Michigan and the University of Texas, the name of its program describes its research focus: Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science. NSF also launched the Physics Frontier Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Labora tory and Astrophysical Plasmas (CMSO)
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The three directorates most heavily involved have been Engineering, Geosciences, and Mathematical and Physical Sciences. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA supports a significant portfolio of astronomy and astrophysics research probably because at least 99 percent of the visible universe is composed of plasmas.
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Because NASA does not programmatically recognize plasma science as a dis cipline, the committee was unable to achieve a finer level of detail.
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