New Head of DOE Fusion Energy Sciences

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:19 am

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http://blogs.physicstoday.org/wht/2009/ ... -of-u.html

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He is a Livermore guy. Replacing a U Wisconsin guy who left in Aug. 2008.

Ed Synakowski,Fusion Energy Program Leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a current member of Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors, has been named to head the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) effective June 7. He succeeds Ray Fonck (University of Wisconsin), who resigned the post in August 2008.

After receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Texas in 1988, Ed joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where he worked on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) and later the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) until joining LLNL in January 2006.

Ed can currently be reached at Ed_S @ LLNL.gov

A copy of the DOE letter announcing his appointment by Pat Dehmer, Deputy Director of the DOE Office of Science is available on request from Fusion Power Associates.

You might want to e-mail Ed and see where he stands on Polywell.

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:02 am

Nice find there buddy.

Yes email ED and tell him to build MSimons LN2 cooled reactor, now!

rnebel · Post by **rnebel** » Tue May 05, 2009 10:02 pm

Ed was a tokamak person at PPPL before he went to LLNL. Don't expect any changes from OFES.

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Sun May 10, 2009 9:56 pm

A trombone player

http://www.pppl.gov/polImage.cfm?doc_Id ... e_code=Doc

Professor Science · Post by **Professor Science** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:51 am

Well at least he's used to outside the box thinking then.