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The Sherwood Conferences were a series of classified conferences that were held between 1952 and 1958 in the United States. These conferences were a part of the United States controlled nuclear program called Project Sherwood. These conferences were established in order to entice experienced personnel to join the newly developed Project Sherwood. There were three different plasma confinement designs that were being researched in three different locations: the stellarator at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the toroidal pinch at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the magnetic mirror at the Livermore National Laboratory. Because these individual projects operated in separate facilities, these conferences were helpful to strengthen communication of information between all three projects.[1]

The First Conference

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The first Sherwood conference was organized by the AEC director of the Division of Research, Thomas Johnson.[2] The conference was held at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado on June 28, 1952. To attract more experienced personnel, workers already participating on the projects attended the conference. Overall, there were about eighty scientists that attended the first conference.[3][4]

Dates and Locations of the Sherwood Conferences[5]

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Date Location
June 28, 1952 University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
April 7, 1953 University of California, Berkeley, California
June 24, 1954 Los Alamos, New Mexico
October 26–27, 1954 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
February 7–9, 1955 University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California
June 10–11, 1955 Los Alamos, New Mexico
October 17–20, 1955 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
June 4–7, 1956 Gatlinburg, Tennessee
February 20–23, 1957 Berkeley, California
October 17–18, 1957 Princeton, New Jersey
February 3–6, 1958 Washington, D.C.

References

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  1. ^ Bishop, Amasa. Project Sherwood; The U.S. Program in Controlled Fusion. p. 75. ISBN 9780548389706.
  2. ^ "Project Sherwood and the origin of the annual Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference". Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. ^ Bishop, Amasa (1958). Project Sherwood; the U.S. Program in Controlled Fusion. p. 76. ISBN 9780548389706.
  4. ^ Clery, Daniel (2014). A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy. The Overlook Press. ISBN 978-1468308891.
  5. ^ Bishop, Amasa (1958). Project Sherwood; The U.S. Program in Controlled Fusion. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. p. 76. ISBN 9780548389706.

See also

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