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...generally cross magnetic lines of force, they can be confined by a powerful magnetic field. The magnetic bottle is the only known practical container in which fusion can be sustained for any significant amount of time. If a plasma were to come in contact with the walls of a reactor, it would pick up impurities, lose energy and suffer a temperature drop that would immediately halt any fusion reaction...
Most scientists concede that this honor could well be won by the giant Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) now under construction at Princeton. The TFTR is scheduled to begin operation in 1981 and is expected to prove the scientific feasibility of fusion...
...Alcator fusion program, "we will have the first ignition device. Then we will turn off all the power except the magnets, and the gas in there will be burning just like our own little sun." After that, researchers would have to achieve the point at which a fusion reactor produces more power than it uses and then build a demonstration plant that will actually convert the enormous heat produced by fusion into electrical energy. ERDA believes that the first such facility could be ready by the mid-1990s and that fusion plants could begin supplying energy to the U.S. early...
...everything, and to believe that his views and those of the "consumer" are necessarily one and the same. Moreover, there is a question as to whether the consumer's narrow economic interest is always consonant with the public interest. The objective consumer interest in regard to the breeder reactor, for example, might be to speed its development to cultivate unlimited supplies of cheap nuclear fuel. Such an interest, though, is probably outweighed by the public need to avoid proliferation of nuclear materials abroad...
...attention of the government by participating in the informal and formal proceedings of other federal agencies, challenging regulations in court, and serving as a clearinghouse for consumer complaints. So even if the consumer protection agency took an outrageous position on a particular issue, such as the breeder reactor, the rest of the government could simply ignore...