Decker named acting U.S. Fusion program head.(James Decker of United States. Department of Energy appointed as acting director )(Brief article)

From: Fusion Power Report | Date: May 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Dr. James Decker, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, has been named Acting Director of the Department's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, effective with the retirement of Dr, N. Anne Davies on April 3. Decker has been Deputy Director of the Office of Science for a couple of decades and, during the 1970s, was Director of the fusion program's Applied Plasma Physics Division.

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