Alternative concepts: A report to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

This article is a response to the Office of Energy Research of the US DOE from the Fusion Energy Advisory Committee on a review of alternate concepts for magnetic confinement devices. This response was solicited in response to one of the suggestions made as part of the advisory report `A Restructured Fusion Energy Sciences Program` submitted to the US DOE in early 1996. The committee was asked to specifically respond to the concept of sperical tokamaks, and to offer suggestions for investment strategies for funding alternate concepts.

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