The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) met October 23-24 in Gaithersburg, MD. The FESAC received reports from three panels and endorsed them with minor editing to be done before being transmitted by FESAC to DOE Under Secretary for Science Ray Orbach. Martin Greenwald (MIT) presented his planning panel's report entitled "Priorities, Gaps and Opportunities: Towards a Long-Range Strategic Plan for Magnetic Fusion Energy." The panel had been asked in a February 7, 2007 letter from Ray Orbach "to identify the issues arising in a path to Demo, with ITER as a central part of that effort." In its hefty 203-page report, the panel identified 14 issue areas and addressed their prioritization according to their "importance, urgency and generality."
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