General Atomics - Billion-dollar technology hotter than the sun April 10-at GA

Please consider for coverage one of the biggest efforts the U.S. Is working on toward creating a new clean-energy source for the planet. 

We’re holding  a fusion energy media event April 10 at General Atomics near San Diego where we're building the world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet — powerful enough to hoist the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier.  Able to withstand twice the force of the Space Shuttle at launch.

- The media event features the start of winding operations for this 1,000 ton supermagnet that will be the heartbeat of ITER, the international fusion energy effort involving 35 nations representing more than half the world population. Fusion is the scientific quest to harness the power of the Sun on Earth and create a new clean energy source without long-term waste, promising an energy supply that is virtually unlimited.

- Advisory attached with details. No ribbons being cut, instead we’re opening to you our scientific facility full of massive operating machinery engineering this unique technology

- Hope you can make the event. Please let me know if there is any background you would like me to send you in advance (this technology is literally hot, since fusion energy reaches temperatures 10x hotter than the sun)

- FYI confirmation from the following VIPS at the event: Ed Synakowski (Associate Director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy);  Michael Knotek (Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Energy DOE);  Ned Sauthoff, chief of the U.S. ITER program; and Neal Blue, chairman of the 60-year-old high-tech firm General Atomics. There will be a message from Bernard Bigot, the newly confirmed chief of the international ITER fusion energy program.

With regards,

Lisa

-- Lisa Petrillo, Strategic Communications

General Atomics | Energy and Advanced Concepts Group

858/455-3474 office | 858/997-8921 mobile

Lisa.Petrillo@ga.com