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In article <1991Nov11.154523.18353@jet.uk>, cm@jet.uk (colin manning) writes:
>The director of JET, Dr Paul-Henri Rebut, announcing the successful 
>experiment said "this is the first time that a significant amount of power
>has been obtained from controlled nuclear fusion reactions. It is clearly
>a major step forward in the development of fusion as a new source of energy."

first congrats to all involved.

however, are all these claims of a limitless energy supply being
overplayed? at the (excellent) open day at JET in the summer one
of the leaflets/films said that the power would be produced by sheathing
a fusion reactor in lithium, which would itself fuse with high energy
deuterium (?) nuclei flying out of the reaction and that the heat
from this would be used to generate electricity. in then went on to
say that currently known reserves of lithium would be enough to 
satisfy the worlds energy demands for 100 years ..... but what
happens after that?



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