Prof. Robert Goldston concluded that in H-mode, the motion of ions is dominated by non-turbulent drift effects. He used this knowledge to develop a model for predicting the width of the scrape-off layer in tokamaks.

The director of the American Institute of Physics wrote an epistle on the advances in Fusion technology and why in times of budgettary constraints, the US and others should nuture large scientific endeavors such as fusion research projects.

Martin Fleischmann has died on August 3, 2012 at the age of 85. Fleischmann and his colleague Stan Pons became famous for their cold fusion claim, now known as the Fleischmann–Pons experiment, but were later heavily criticized as the results could not be reproduced by other leading laboratories such as MIT, Caltech and Harwell.