Magnetic fusion programs

Pacing the U.S. Magnetic Fusion Program, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1989. 

Fusion Power by Magnetic Confinement, Program Plan. U. S. Energy Research Development Administration ERDA-76/110. Report available from Nat. Tech. Information Service (NTIS), U. S., Dep. of Commerce, Springfield, Virgina 22161... 

A LOW-TEMPERATURE MATERIALS RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR MAGNETIC FUSION ENERGY ... 

Low-Temperature Materials Research Program for Magnetic Fusion Energy... 

R. P. Reed, F. R. Fickett, M. B. Kasen, and H. I. McHenry, Magnetic Fusion Energy Low Temperature Materials Program A Survey, Report to ERDA/DMFE from NBS Cryogenics Division, Boulder, Colorado (March 1977). 

D. V. Anderson et al., in Proc. Third Symposium on Physics and Technology of Compact Toroids in the Magnetic Fusion Energy Program (Los Alamos, 1980) 130. 

Technology of Compact Toroids in the Magnetic Fusion Energy Program (Los Alamos 1980) 76. 

Technology of Compact Toroids in the Magnetic Fusion Energy Program", R.K. Linford, ed., Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Dec. 2-4(1980)p. 208. 

In an attempt to develop the hydrogen bomb before the Russians, a second weapons laboratory , Lawrence Livermore, was established in July 1952 to handle the additional work that would be necessaiy to stay ahead of the Russian nuclear weapons program. The administrator chosen was the University of California. Eor the next forty-five years, this LLNL was a formidable competitor to Los Alamos in the development of nuclear weapons. But much like most of the other major national laboratories, its focus also shifted away from nuclear weapons to basic science to fields like magnetic and laser fusion energy, non-nuclear energy, biomedicine, and environmental science. By the late 1990s, half of the laboratoi y s budget was nonde-fense related as the shift away from nuclear weapons continued. 

The effects of radiation on the properties of superconductors was the subject of the International Discussion Meeting held at Argonne National Laboratory, June 12-16, 1977. Eighty scientists from seven countries attended. The program focused on radiation effects on reversible and irreversible properties, fundamental fluxoid-defect interactions, radiation considerations for fusion magnets, and ion implantation in superconductors. 

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