Fusions Power Associates' 30th anniversary
11 Dec 2009
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Sabina Griffith
Smiling for the family album at this year's annual meeting: Osamu Motojima, Director of the National Institute of Fusion Science, Japan, and recipient of the 2008 Fusion Power Associates Distinguished Career Award; John Sheffield (University of Tennessee); Tom Simonen (General Atomics, retired); Bick Hooper (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, retired); Roger Bangerter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, retired).
On 6 December, the Fusion Power Associates convened in the venerable Capitol Hill Club in Washington D.C. to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Besides talks on the status of the ITER Project delivered by Norbert Holtkamp, ITER Principal Deputy Director-General, and Ned Sauthoff, Head of the US ITER Domestic Agency, representatives of the world's large tokamaks and most of the American fusion labs gave a status quo report.