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From: smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: FUSION (this decade?)
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 15:20:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 15:20:54 1985
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!smh

> .... already been achieved some time ago with the shiva laser
> at AMES? When I was there they had been fusing deuterium for
> awhile( or so they said, anyway). Perhaps they're raving about
> commercial plants?

Right on.  Fusion has been obtained in the lab many times, but a sustained
power producing reaction has not been revealed to the public by anyone.
All present processes use more power than they produce.  However this
is to be expected by the design.  Development is coming right along and
a commercial design is just a few (hopefully) iterations away.