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Subject: Conventional Fusion FAQ Section 11/11 (Acknowledgements)
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Summary: Fusion energy represents a promising alternative to 
         fossil fuels and nuclear fission for world energy 
         production. This FAQ answers Frequently Asked Questions
         (from the sci.physics.fusion newsgroup) about conventional 
         areas of fusion energy research. It also provides other 
         useful information about the subject. This FAQ does NOT 
         discuss unconventional forms of fusion (like Cold Fusion). 

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Archive-name: fusion-faq/section11-acknowledgements
Last-modified: 13-Sept-1994
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12.  Citations and Acknowledgements

****** Blanket Acknowledgement ******

The staff who prepared the WWW page at PPPL deserve a blanket
acknowledgement, and the others who have prepared much of PPPL's
public information do too, since I have drawn heavily on their
work in a variety of different sections. 


***********   Section-by-Section *************

*** Section 1 - Fusion as a Physical Phenomenon

! John Cobb, johncobb@emx.cc.utexas.edu, whose description of 
aneutronic fusion I borrowed.
* Marybeth Gurski, gurski@cs.iastate.edu - guinea pig for 
first draft; made many suggestions and corrections
! Rich Schroeppel, rcs@cs.arizona.edu - corrections and
improvements.
! Art Carlson, awc@ipp-garching.mpg.de - corrections and
improvements.
! John Wright, jcwright@pppl.gov - minor corrections.


*** Section 2 - Fusion as a Future Energy Source

! Art Carlson, awc@ipp-garching.mpg.de, for many of the questions, 
and some of the answers, particularly describing the main 
components of a fusion reactor.


*** Section 3 - Fusion as a Scientific Research Program


*** Section 4 - Confinement Approaches
! John Cobb, johncobb@uts.cc.utexas.edu - info on electrostatic 
     confinement.
! Steven Jones, jonesse@physics.byu.edu - info on muon-catalyzed 
     fusion, corrections to my original entries.
! Ken Doniger, doniger@lsil.com - additional references on new 
     developments in electrostatic confinement
! Paul Koloc, prometheus!pmk@cs.umd.edu - info on the plasma focus
     and Z-pinch approaches. 
* John Lien, jtl@els.cray.com - info on subterranean pure-fusion bomb
     detonation as an energy source


*** Section 5 - Status of Current Fusion Devices

! Art Carlson, awc@ipp-garching.mpg.de - info on various machines.
! Albert Chou, albert@seas.ucla.edu - info on LLNL machines.
! John Cobb, johncobb@uts.cc.utexas.edu - info on various machines.
! Emilio Martines, martines@pdigi3.igi.pd.cnr.it - info on RFX.
! Stephen Cooper - JET info.
! David Ward, ward@crppsun.epfl.ch - more info on new machines
* Bonnie Nestor, mnj@ornl.gov - info on ATF, TdeV
! Andres C. Gaeris, agae@lle.rochester.edu - info on Omega, Nike


*** Section 6 - Recent Results

* Thanks to the TFTR and JET teams for giving us results to discuss!
* Particular thanks to Stephen Cooper at JET, who posted in Dec. 1993
  on the state of JET research, which I quoted extensively.


*** Section 7 - Educational Opportunities

* Geoff Maddison (geoff.maddison@aea.orgn.uk) and 
* Diane Carroll (via nuf@pppl.gov) - for providing 
     information on summer programs.
! Art Carlson - list of major upcoming conferences and plasma
     schools in various countries.
* Jim Day, jim.day@support.com - for suggesting high-school 
     experiments be included.
! David Pearson, dwcp@mercury.nerc-nutis.ac.uk - info on european
     plasma programs
* Thanks to the many students who have sent me email with questions!


*** Section 8 - Internet Resources

* Dieter Britz, BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk - I used his information on
     retrieving files from the vm1.nodak.edu ftp/listserv site.
* Bijal Modi - set up the neutrino.berkeley.edu ftp site.
! Art Carlson - info on Garching Gopher site.
! Joe Chew - for making himself available to provide info.
* Bonnie Nestor, mnj@ornl.gov - info on UTexas net resources.
? Perry Phillips, phillips@hagar.ph.utexas.edu - more Texas info.
! Chuck Harrison, harr@netcom.com - clued me in to sunsite resources.
! Steve Fairfax, fairfax@cmod.pfc.mit.edu - told me about MIT WWW
     pages, and thereby led me to take another look at the DOE info. 


*** Section 10 - Glossary - Acknowledgements:

! Jake Blanchard, blanchard@engr.wisc.edu - suggested we have a 
     list of acronyms too.
! Arthur Carlson, awc@ipp-garching.mpg.de - supplied additional 
     definitions, made corrections / amplifications / revisions to
     earlier definitions.
! Edward Chao, ehchao@theory.pppl.gov - info on LANL fusion research,
     additions and corrections to various definitions.
! Albert Chou, albert@seas.ucla.edu - supplied additional 
     definitions, made corrections / amplifications / revisions to 
     earlier definitions.
! John Cobb, johncobb@uts.cc.utexas.edu - lots o' definitions.
! James Crotinger, jac@gandalf.llnl.gov - additional definitions,
     quality control, and comments on the usefulness of the FUT.
* Jim Day, jim.day@support.com - initial list of terms, additional
     definitions, modifications to earlier definitions.
! Steve Fairfax, Fairfax@cmod.pfc.mit.edu - additional definitions
     from the Alcator weekly reports.
* Robin Herman, _Fusion: Search for Endless Energy_; I borrowed a 
     few terms from her glossary.  Cited as (from Herman).  (Many
     of these terms derived from the PPPL glossary I also used.)
! Paul M. Koloc, pmk@prometheus.UUCP - quality control, some entries
! Emilio Martines, martines@pdigi3.igi.pd.cnr.it - quality control,
     reversed-field entries & information.
* Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Glossary of Fusion Terms - list of
     terms prepared by PPPL staff at some point.  Consulted in many
     cases, blatantly paraphrased in some, quoted and cited in 
     others.
* Mike Ross, mikeross@almaden.ibm.com - additional Livermore info
     and corrections to some entries.
* Richard Schroeppel, rcs@cs.arizona.edu - suggestions/corrections to
     many definitions.
! Philip Snyder, pbsnyder@theory.pppl.gov - corrections to 
     definitions.
! Paul Stek, Stek@cmod.pfc.mit.edu - additional definitions
!? Mitchell Swarz, mica@world.std.com - supplied additional 
     definitions / corrections and revisions to existing definitions.


*** Section 11 - Bibliography

* Acknowledgements are included with each reference listed.
* Additional thanks to Jim Day, jim.day@support.com, who gave
     me the initial list of references, from which this grew.


*** Additional Acknowledgements:

* Thanks to John Wright for doing much of the work required
  to convert the FAQ to Web format.

* I owe a special thank-you to Rush Holt at PPPL, who has been 
a mentor, answered zillions of questions, provided innumerable
references, and generally helped me acquire the background and 
tools to put this together.  

* The same goes for my professors here at PPPL.


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Robert F. Heeter, rfheeter@theory.pppl.gov
Graduate Student, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Usual Disclaimers Appl