Published October 9, 1987
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Journal article
Fusion's $372-Million Mothball
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Description
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF-B) was built to prove that a design using magnetic mirrors could compete in an international race to produce a commercial fusion reactor. The MFTF-B was to be used to propel the magnetic mirror program into a real contest against Livermore's arch rival: the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and its tokamak machine. On 21 February 1986, after 9 years of construction and $372 million, MTFT-B was officially dedicated. However, due to budget restriction DOE demanded the facility be put on standby the very next day
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Science (Washington, D.C.)
- Journal Volume
- 238
- Series
- Science (Washington, D.C.).
- Journal Page Range
- 152-155
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- CODEN
- SCIEA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19080466
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COST; DEUTERIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINANCING; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABORATORY; MAGNETIC MIRRORS; MFTF DEVICES; PLASMA; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; REVIEWS; SPECIFICATIONS; STEADY-STATE FUSION REACTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; TMX DEVICES; TOKAMAK DEVICES; US DOE
- Descriptors DEC
- CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETS; EQUIPMENT; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LA; LIGHT NUCLEI; MAGNETS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TANDEM MIRRORS; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS; US AEC; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS