<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Scientific American 12-14-2018</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Experts Urge U.S. to Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research</b></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">An international fusion project could help the nation eventually develop its own, smaller reactor</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-urge-u-s-to-continue-support-for-nuclear-fusion-research/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-urge-u-s-to-continue-support-for-nuclear-fusion-research/&source=gmail&ust=1544901497640000&usg=AFQjCNGYZRCv79Z-zkgwY9PakBmpE4w47Q" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.<wbr class="">scientificamerican.com/<wbr class="">article/experts-urge-u-s-to-<wbr class="">continue-support-for-nuclear-<wbr class="">fusion-research/</a></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">Excerpt</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">“We are seeing tremendous progress being made in the path to achieving fusion energy around the world,” said Michael Mauel, a professor of applied physics at Columbia University and co-chair of the panel. “Now is the right time for the U.S. to benefit from the investments in burning plasma research and take leadership in fusion energy.”</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-urge-u-s-to-continue-support-for-nuclear-fusion-research/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-urge-u-s-to-continue-support-for-nuclear-fusion-research/&source=gmail&ust=1544901497640000&usg=AFQjCNGYZRCv79Z-zkgwY9PakBmpE4w47Q" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.<wbr class="">scientificamerican.com/<wbr class="">article/experts-urge-u-s-to-<wbr class="">continue-support-for-nuclear-<wbr class="">fusion-research/</a></span></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"For decades, we called it ‘global warming,’ an innocuous-sounding phrase invoking a gentle increase in worldwide temperatures, like turning up the thermostat in a house.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/content/from-sea-to-rising-sea-climate-change-in-america" class="">https://www.seas.harvard.edu/content/from-sea-to-rising-sea-climate-change-in-america</a></div></div>
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