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Congress and the Fusion Energy Sciences Program: A Historical Analysis

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This report reviews and analyzes the 42-year history of congressional deliberations over funding of the magnetic fusion research and development (R&D) program. That analysis provides the basis for an assessment about how the program might fare in the future as it proceeds in the direction of developing a long-term energy source from fusion. The assessment is presented as a series of questions that Congress may wish to address in determining the program's future.

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Rowberg, R.E. Congress and the Fusion Energy Sciences Program: A Historical Analysis. Journal of Fusion Energy 18, 29–46 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018822907976

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