The Final Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research is now available. “We are seeing tremendous progress being made in the path to achieving fusion energy around the world,” said Michael Mauel, professor of applied physics at Columbia University and co-chair of the committee that authored the report. “Now is the right time for the U.S. to benefit from the investments in burning plasma research and take leadership in fusion energy.”

CNN: "I'm a climate scientist, but I didn't work on the latest National Climate Assessment. I wasn't asked to do so, in fact. But if I had been, I would have thought hard before agreeing to participate, because the work is largely thankless. The scientists who put long hours, days, and years into assessments like the NCA, those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others do so on a volunteer basis. The time comes out of their other projects, reducing their output -- meaning fewer papers published on their own research, fewer proposals for grant funding to sustain their research groups, less time put into anything that benefits their careers directly. To what end?"