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... SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS The panel has great concern that basic experimental plasma science is disappearing in the United States. By its count, there are currently fewer than 20 groups engaged in basic plasma experiments in the United States.
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... Laboratory experiments, theory and modeling, spacecraft and astrophysical observations, active space experiments, and experiments on fusion plasmas are synergistic. It is the healthy interplay among all these elements that will lead to a healthy plasma science.
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... 3. To aid the development of fusion and other energy-related programs now supported by the Department of Energy, the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, with the cooperation of the Office of Fusion Energy, should provide increased support for basic experimental plasma science.
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... Increased support for basic research by the Department of Energy is recommended because DOE is charged with responsibility for both the magnetic and inertial confinement fusion programs, as well as a number of other energyrelevant programs that are critically dependent on the fundamental principles of modern plasma science.
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  • ion plasmas
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  • confinement fusion

  • distribution functions
  • inertial confinement
  • plasma waves
  • magnetic fields
  • experimental plasma

  • basic laboratory
  • cyclotron radius
  • fusion plasmas
  • electron cyclotron
  • ion cyclotron

  • distribution function
  • basic experimental
  • plasma experimental
  • laboratory work
  • controlled laboratory

  • science described
  • particle detectors
  • debye length
  • fundamental plasma


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