Proceedings

" In all countries, thermonuclear research starts with the pinch effect. The United Kingdom has chosen to concentrate on this type of device, and P. C. Thonemann (Paper 78) outlines their contribution. The two countries which have diversified thermonuclear research have amazingly similiar research programs. L. A. Artsimovich's paper (Paper 2298), in spite of previous security classification, gives an outline valid for programs of both the Soviet Union and the United States. Judging by the papers presented at Geneva, the United States is far ahead in the range of experiments actually performed. We select J. L. Tuck's review (Paper 1860) of the work at Los Alamos to represent the state of the art in America.

In general, one may say that many ways have been found to produce the fusion reaction in a plasma, but in no case do we understand the energy balance in the plasma. Is the energy delivered preferentially to a few particles by runaway, or to turbulence by local instabilities, or to the walls by gross instabilities? "

From "The Second Geneva Series on The Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy", Series: Nuclear Fusion, William P. Allis, (1960)

Participants discussing, outside Palais d'Nations