FUSION ENERGY HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California, Chairman MARILYN LLOYD, Tennessee JOHN TANNER, Tennessee TIM ROEMER, Indiana BUD CRAMER, Alabama DON JOHNSON, Georgia SAM COPPERSMITH, Arizona ANNA ESHOO, California JAY INSLEE, Washington EDDIE-BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania* SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York PAUL B. HENRY, Michigan DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey SAM JOHNSON, Texas KEN CALVERT, California ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland CONTENTS Dr. N. Anne Davies, Associate Director for Fusion Energy, U.S. Depart- ment of Energy, Washington, DC; accompanied by Dr. Harold K. Forsen, senior vice president for research and development, Bechtel Dr. Paul-Henri Rebut, director, international thermonuclear experimental reactor, San Diego Co-Center, La Jolla, CA; accompanied by Dr. Charles C. Baker, international thermonuclear experimental reactor, U.S. home team leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and Dr. Ronald C. Davidson, director, Princeton Plasma Physics Dr. Klaus H. Berkner, associate laboratory director, operations, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; accompanied by Dr. Bogdan_C. Maglich, chief scientist, Advanced Physics Corp., Irvine, CA; Dr. Ed- mund Storms, staff member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; and Dr. Randell L. Mills, president, Hydrocatalysis Power |