Topic（题目）：Why Should You Care About Nuclear Fusion
Speaker（报告人）： Dr. Crandall
Date（时间）： 2019年5月28号（周二）上午10:00-11:00
Place（地点）： 北京大学技术物理楼 激光加速实验室209
Contact Person（联系人）：颜学庆（x.yan@pku.edu.cn）
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Abstract：
The talk will define fusion and how it works in stars and powers the universe. The current efforts to sustain inertial and magnetic fusion in the laboratory will be summarized. The world's largest fusion endeavor, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction in Cadarache, France, will be outlined along with the magnetic confinement of plasma that it will rely on. The talk will describe in some detail the attempt to reach inertial fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California using the world's largest laser to drive explosion of a tiny fusion fuel target. Connections of these fusion concepts to astrophysics and materials science will be described. Why fusion energy is so attractive and so elusive will be discussed.
Biography：
Dr. Crandall is an independent consultant on fusion physics and policy related to national security. He retired from the Department of Energy in 2013.
His experience includes 16 years of physics research, 25 years of science program management, 5 years as senior advisor to political appointees at DOE and 5 yeas as an independent consultant. At DOE he led significant scientific programs in plasma physics and fusion energy and in nuclear weapon Stockpile Stewardship. Since retirement he has consulted for universities and the DOE and given lectures and invited conference talks.
Dr. Crandall conducted research in atomic collisions from 1967-83 at the University of Nebraska (thesis research), at the University of Missouri at Rolla (visiting professor), at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, CO (post doctoral fellow), and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (researcher and program manager), with over 100 refereed publications. The basic physics he produced is applied in the fields of plasma physics, fusion energy, astrophysics and nuclear weapon analysis. Dr. Crandall is a Fellow of the American Physical Society cited for his work on atomic collisions involving multiply-charged ions.
From 1983 -2013, Dr. Crandall served at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He led numerous specific projects and complex scientific programs within the department. From 1983 he served as Branch Chief and then as Division Director in the Fusion Energy Program within the Office of Energy Research. In 1995, he joined the Office of Defense Programs where he served as Director of the Offices of the National Ignition Facility, Inertial Fusion, and Defense Sciences, and then as the Assistant Deputy Administrator for Research, Development and Simulation, before becoming the National Nuclear Security Administration's Chief Scientist in 2008. During 2011-13 he served as advisor to the Under Secretary for Science at DOE. He has been recipient of the Presidential Award for Meritorious Executives within the Senior Executive Service.
