Panel: Opportunities and Challenges in Developing a Viable Workforce in the Fusion Energy Sector to Support US Manufacturing
SOUTHWEST Session: Fusion Energy offers the potential for long-term, reliable and 24/7 available energy, using abundant fuel supplies without producing long-lived radioactive waste. How can we make fusion energy a reality? What are the opportunities and the challenges from a technology as well as workforce perspective? What do we need to do now to prepare the workforce and advance the technology for commercialization? Join this panel discussion to hear from the President of Tokomak Energy Inc., Dr. Michael Ginsberg, responsible for growing Tokamak Energy's U.S. market and strategic partnerships, along with Christian Newton, Chief of Staff for the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy, Dr. Robert Duckworth, Senior R&D Staff member in the Fusion Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Dr. Allain, Associate Director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) as they share their views on the opportunities and challenges Nuclear Fusion will need to address from a technology as well as workforce perspective.