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On January 21, 1980, Congressman Mike McCormack sent a formal letter to President Jimmy Carter requesting he establish “as a national goal” the operation of a fusion electric demonstration plant before the end of the century. At the Department of Energy, Ed Frieman, previously the deputy director of the fusion program at Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, was confirmed as Director of Energy Research. Frieman set up a new fusion policy review panel chaired by Solomon J. Buschbaum (Bell Laboratories) to update the 1978 DOE review, chaired by John Foster, for John Deutch. Members of the Buchsbaum committee are shown in Table 5.1.
I believe it is obvious that once fusion is achieved, the energy shortage will be past and we will be independent of foreign fuels.
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Dean, S.O. (2013). The Carter Plan vs. The Reagan Agenda: 1980–1985. In: Search for the Ultimate Energy Source. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6037-4_5
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