Representatives Urge Support of DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Program
Richard Jones of The American Institute of Physics wrote about a letter that fifty House Representatives cosigned a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee in support of fusion energy. The letter calls for robust funding for the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES), which overseas several institutions related to magnetic fusion energy. From the article:
Fifty Democratic and Republican representatives have written to the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee in support of the Fusion Energy Sciences Program of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. This letter requests that the subcommittee “protect U.S. capabilities in this area by including adequate funding for both the domestic fusion program and the international ITER fusion project in FY 2014.”
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