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Appendix E: Reprise of Past NRC Reports on Plasma Science
Appendix E: Reprise of Past NRC Reports on Plasma Science
Pages 243-248
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• The National Science Foundation should provide increased support for basic plasma science. • The Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, with the co operation of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES)
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In parallel, OFES created a General Science Program to fund basic research at DOE laboratories and a very successful Young Investigator Program to fund research by junior faculty at colleges and universities. Extending the legacy cooperation in supporting laboratory plasma science, DOE and NSF recently supported the creation of the Physics Frontier Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysics Plasmas, a center of excellence based jointly at the University of Wisconsin and the Princ eton Plasma Physics Laboratory and involving six other institutions at the level of several million dollars per year.
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• The historical importance of gas lasers, isotope separation, and magneto hydrodynamics to the field was highlighted, but there were few predictions about the future. In fact, there has been little research in these fields outside the classified work by the national laboratory communities.
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The 2000 report An Assessment of the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program considered the effectiveness of the OFES science program. The key recommendations of this report are these: • Achieving scientific understanding should be a recognized goal of the program.
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The response to this report was good but not complete -- indeed, the commit tee revisits some of the same issues in this report. The establishment by OFES of two fusion science centers and the funding of the NSF Physics Frontier Center at Wisconsin have greatly increased connections to universities and reduced scientific isolation.
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The report identified promising research opportunities in plasma physics and made general recommendations in addition to many subfield-specific comments. Of particular note, the committee made two overarching recommendations: • Because fundamental understanding of plasma properties precedes the discovery of new applications, and because basic plasma research can be expected to lead to exciting new discoveries, increased support for basic research in plasma physics is strongly recommended.
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