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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re: uiuc research into fusion impossibility
Date: 4 Sep 1997 18:46:40 GMT
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In article <dogwood-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim
 Skirvin) writes:
> >
> >In article tim.skirvin@~daemons/why/ap@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> g-rolfe@uiuc.edu 
> >(Gary Rolfe) writes:
> >
> >>We are establishing grant money for Dr. Robert M. Skirvin
> >>to find the brain locus of mulberry trees.
> >>
> >>Nuclear Engineering Faculty
> >>
> >>A list of awards which each faculty member has received is available
> >>on a page maintained by the College of Engineering.
> >>
> >>R. A. Axford, Sc.D. Reactor physics, safety, and risk assessment;
> >>radiation hydrodynamics; heat transfer; optimal reactor control,
> >>synthesis, and nuclear fuel management; hydrodynamic stability; Lie
> >>groups and systems of nonlinear differential equations; plasma physics;
> >>group invariant difference schemes.
> >>B. G. Jones, Ph.D. Nuclear reactor safety, thermal-hydraulics,
> >>turbulence measurement and modeling, flow-induced vibrations,
> >>multiphase flow, function allocation for reactor control.
> >>K. K. Kim, Ph.D. Fusion technology, fusion reactor fueling, high-energy
> >>lasers, electromagnetic railgun, laser fusion targets, ionized-cluster
> >>beam epitaxy, electrohydrodynamics.
> >>G. H. Miley, Ph.D. Fusion, plasma engineering, fusion technology,
> >>computational methods for plasma analysis, nuclear-pumped lasers.
> >>D. N. Ruzic, Ph.D. Experimental fusion research, modeling of
> >>edge-plasma atomic physics, atomic properties of first-wall materials,
> >>plasma-material interaction, plasma processing of semi-conductors.
> >>C. E. Singer, Ph.D. Analytical and numerical fusion plasma engineering
> >>and physics as applied to tokamaks; advanced propulsion concepts.
> >>J. F. Stubbins, Ph.D. Nuclear materials, irradiation damage and effects,
> >>mechanical properties, high temperature corrosion, stress corrosion
> >>cracking, electron microscopy.
> >>R. J. Turnbull, Ph.D. Controlled fusion, cluster beams,
> >>electrohydrodynamics. 
> >>
>> We are beginning to respect Dr. Plutonium's conclusion that engineering 
>>controlled fusion to extract efficient electrical power cannot be done in 
>>theory and in practice.
>>        Thanks.  Or something.
>>
>>  - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@uiuc.edu)