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GENERAL ATOMICS
P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-9784
3550 General Atomics Court, San Diego, California 92121-1194
Delivery address: 3483 Dunhill Street, San Diego, California 92121-1200
Telephone: +1 858 455 3000 (Main operator)
Telefax: +1 858 455 2494 (Fusion Group)
E-mail (1): Surname@fusion.gat.com
E-mail (2): Firstname.Lastname@gat.com
URL: http://fusion.gat.com
FUSION GROUP
| Senior Vice-President: | Baldwin, David E. | |
| Assistant: | Stav, Marion H. |
DIII-D Division
DIII-D Program Director & Vice-President: Stambaugh, Ronald D.
DIII-D Program Director: Taylor, Tony S.
Assistant DIII-D Program Director: Petersen, Peter I.
Director, Experimental Science: Taylor, Tony S.
Director, Heating & Current Drive Systems: Callis, Rich W.
Director, Tokamak Systems: Kellman, Arnold G.
Co-Directors, Theory & Computational Science: Chan, Vincent S. and Dahlburg, Jill P.
Technical Advisor: Luxon, James L.
DIII-D Program Office (Telefax: +1 858 455 2496)
Vice-President & Director: Stambaugh, Ronald D. (E-mail: stambaugh@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Stav, Marion H.
Lasers Division
Lasers & Inertial Fusion Program Director & Vice-President: Campbell, E. Michael
Deputy for Operations, Lasers & Inertial Fusion: Schultz, Ken
Director, Inertial Fusion Technology: Dahlburg, Jill P.
Director, Photonics: Perry, Michael
Lasers & Inertial Fusion Program Office (Telefax: 1 858 455 2838)
Director: Campbell, E. Michael (E-mail: Mike.Campbell@gat.com
)
Assistant: Tidwell, Karen
Director: Business & Technology Development: Hamilton, Chris J.
Director: Program Support: Shoolbred, Keith S.
DIII-D Tokamak Systems (Telefax: +1 858 455 4190)
Director: Kellman, Arnold G. (E-mail: kellman@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Kidney, Kristin
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Anderson, Paul M.
Baxi, Chandu B. Besker, Nick Bozek, Amy S. Cashmere, Dan Chin, Ed Coon, Bob Cummings, Dennis Deranian, Robert D. (Wales) Ellis, Ron (LLNL) Freeman, Joe |
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Friend, Mike E.
Gonzales, Eddie Grantham, Bill Greene, Kathy L. Hansink, Matt J. Holtrop, Kurt L. Holtz, Gunther Humphreys, Dave A. Jernigan, Thomas C. (ORNL) Johnson, Bob Keith, Kristi M. |
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Kulchar, Jim
Lee, Rick L. Leuer, Jim A. Lynch, Jim McHarg, Bill B. Miller, David Nagy, Alex (PPPL) Parker, Carl Penaflor, Ben G. Piglowski, David A. Reis, Elmer E. Robinson, John I. |
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Scoville, Tim
Simas, Ron Skinner, Steve Smith, Pete Taylor, Eddie Taylor, Pete L. Walker, Mike L. Williams, Bob Williams, Randy |
Heating & Current Drive Systems (Telefax: +1 858 455 4190)
Director: Callis, Rich W. (E-mail: callis@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Kidney, Kristen
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Beckwith, Rick
Brambila, Rigo Brown, Ed Busath, Jon Carrig, William Cary, Bill P. Chiu, Henry K. Clow, Don Delaware, Sheri Doan, Kevin |
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Dvorsky, Paul
Gorelov, Iouri Greenough, Nevell L. (PPPL) Grosnickle, Bill H. Haddock, James Harris, Tom E. Hoyt, David Hong, Ruey Humphrey, Robert |
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Kellman, Dan
Legg, Robert Lohr, John Lontoc, Meynardo Madruga, Matt Makariou, Christos Miller, David (PPPL) Morales, Jorge Morris, Paul Morse, Jim |
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Nerem, Arne
Phillips, Jeremy Ponce, Dan Pronko, Steve G.E. Scoville, Bonnie Tompkins, Robert Whitaker, Diana |
Experimental Science (Telefax: +1 858 455 4156)
Director: Taylor, Tony S. (E-mail: taylor@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Cerda, Lupe
Theory & Computational Science (Telefax: +1 858 455 3586)
Co-Director: Chan, Vincent S. (E-mail: chanv@fusion.gat.com
)
Co-Director: Dahlburg, Jill P. (E-mail: dahlburg@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Lopez, Sherry
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Ashley, Robert
Burruss, Justin Candy, Jeff Casper, Tom (LLNL) Chance, Morrell S. (PPPL) Chu, Ming S. Galkin, Sergi (UCSD) Hinton, Fred |
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Kinsey, Jon (LeHigh)
Lao, Lang L. Lin-Liu, Y.R. Meyer, William (LLNL) Nevins, William M. (LLNL) Omelchenko, Yuri Parks, Paul B. Peng, Qian |
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Perkins, Francis W.
(PPPL) Porter, Gary D. (LLNL) Rosenbluth, Marshall Schachter, Jeff M. Schissel, Dave P. Snyder, Phil B. St John, Holger E. Staebler, Gary M. |
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Terpstra, Ted (PPPL)
Turnbull, Alan D. Waltz, Ron E. Wang, Wei-Xing (UC Irvine) Wolf, Neil (LLNL) |
Business & Technology (Telefax: +1 858 455 2494)
Director: Hamilton, Chris J. (E-mail: hamiltonc@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Hernandez, Donna
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Condon, Mike
Danielson, Carol A. DePaoli, Steve DiMartino, Mike Doane, John L. Forster, Dana |
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Grunloh, Howard
Ikezi, Hiro Isherwood, Carolyn Jarrett, Woodie Martin, Ward Miracle, Betty |
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Moeller, Charles
Norum, Debbie Olstad, Bob Shamoun, Randy Stewart, Larry Tao, Raymond |
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Wesley, John
Wong, Clement Young, John |
Inertial Fusion Technology (Telefax: +1 858 455 2399)
Director: Dahlburg, Jill P. (E-mail: dahlburg@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Koz, Beulah
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Alexander, Neil
Baugh, Wes Besenbruch, Gottfried Brown, Lloyd Castillo, Erwin Drake, Tom Elsner, Fred Gibson, Chuck |
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Gibson, Jane
Goodin, Dan Grant, Steve Greenwood, Annette Hoppe, Martin Husband, David Kaae, Jim McQuillan, Barry |
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Miller, Wayne
Nikroo, Abbas Paguio, Sally Petzoldt, Ron Pontelandolfo, Joe Ruppe, John Shearer, Clyde Sheliak, John |
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Smith, Joe
Steinman, David Stemke, Robert Stephens, Rich Takagi, Masaru (LLNL) Woodhouse, Woody |
Photonics (Telefax: +1 858 457 8740)
Director: Perry, Michael (Michael.Perry@gat.com
)
Assistant: Lamorandier, Roxanne
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Banks, Paul
Barton, Ian Beals, Keith Becraft, Will Broesch, Jim Cowan, Tom Cox, Ralph |
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Dowla, Farid
Ellis, Jason Forsman, Andrew Furuno, Dave Gutierrez, Oscar Herman, Steve Kendall, Matt |
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Newkirk, Alison
O'Connor, Tom Peters, Dan Pyke, Ben Pyke, Katy Rolens, Gary Romero, Juan |
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Sammarco, Pat
Schleicher, Bob Schmidt, Bodo Snider, Robin |
Program Support (Telefax: +1 858 455 2494)
Director: Shoolbred, Keith (E-mail: shoolbred@fusion.gat.com
)
Assistant: Hernandez, Donna
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Bakalarski, Joe
Bellman, Wayne Bowman, Brenda Brancaccio, Vince |
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Brown, Ron
Gish, Burney Hamilton, Brenda Minet, Gerry |
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Nap, Phil
Nelson, Doug Roberts, Butch Savercool, Rick |
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Schneidmuller, Chuck
Visser, Steve Wilson, Bob |
General Atomics has active roles in both the magnetic and inertial fusion programs. The focus of the magnetic fusion program is research on the DIII-D tokamak by GA staff, national collaborators, and international collaborators. The inertial fusion program focuses on target fabrication and handling systems for other laboratories, and develops lasers and optical components for fusion and other applications. A strong theory and computational science program supports these efforts, and jointly develops the scientific basis for designing future experiments.
The DIII-D National Fusion Program focuses on understanding the science of fusion energy with the intent of developing fusion into a viable energy source. The DIII-D tokamak is an extremely flexible device capable of producing highly non-circular (kappa up to 2) reactor-relevant discharges. The device is capable of diverted and non-diverted configurations. Substantial neutral beam, ECRF, and ICRF heating are used to heat the plasma. A comprehensive diagnostics set provides definitive data for analysis and comparison to theory. The research program focuses on stability, confinement, boundary and particle physics, and heating and current drive.
Recent emphasis of the research program includes; a) the use of the divertor to provide power and particle control at the plasma edge, b) active stabilization of the resistive wall modes to increase the plasma energy (beta limit), c) understanding of internal plasma transport barriers and their use to improve plasma confinement, and d) the use of ECRH to provide localized heating and current drive to shape the plasma profiles and control plasma instabilities. More details on this effort can be found at the General Atomics web site.
General Atomics is also capable of providing support and hardware in key areas of magnetic fusion technology, including: high power microwave systems, advanced plasma control systems, high heat flux systems, neutron shields and blankets, and low activation materials.
GA is the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) target support contractor, providing research, development, fabrication, and characterization of targets for the U.S. DOE ICF program. It also provides cryogenic engineering design, development and fabrication of cryogenic target handling systems for ICF experiments such as Omega at the University of Rochester, and the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
GA's activities in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) include development of IFE target fabrication and injection technologies, and both experimental and theoretical research into the ``fast ignition'' fusion phenomenon.
GA's Photonics division is developing lasers and laser components such as fast pulsed head-ends, optical gratings, and beam optics for fast pulsed ``Petawatt'' laser systems for fusion and science research.
List of collaborating institutions:
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U.S Laboratories Argonne National Laboratory Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories |
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U.S. Universities Alaska University California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) Columbia University Georgia Institute of Technology Hampton University John Hopkins University Lehigh University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Palomar College Rennselaar Polytechnic Institute University of Texas University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of Maryland University of Wisconsin Washington University |
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Japan Japan Atomic Energy Research Agency JT-60U JFT-2M National Institute for Fusion Science LHD Tsukuba University |
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European Community |
Russia
Ioffe Institute
Keldysh Institute
Kurchatov Institute
Moscow State University
Troitsk Institute
Other International
Academia Sinica Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) (China)
Centre Canadien de Fusion Magnétique (CCFM) (Canada)
Chalmers University (Sweden)
Helsinki University (Finland)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)
Southwestern Institute of Physics (China)
Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
University of Alberta (Canada)
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Wales (Wales)