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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Scien-
ists at the Los Alamos Scientific
aboratory are making final adjust-
nents on a device they hope will
ake them one step closer to de
velopment of a virtually limitless
iupply of energy.
The device is a 7-foot wide,
lonut-shaped tube wrapped by 12
nagnetic discs the size of truck tires
indfed by a seemingly endless sup-
)ly of electric cables. It is called
imply “ZT-40. ”
Technically, ZT-40 is a “torraidal
nagnetic bottle,” a device which in
arger fonn may be used to ixiwer
mdear fusion reactors.
Scientists throughout the world
are currently working on several dif
ferent approaches to achieve con
trolled fusion reactions.
Fusion reactions like those in the
sun occur when two light elements
collide, fuse under intense pressure
and heat to fonn a heavier element,
eleasing energy in the process. In
[heory, that energy would lie used
:o heat water and then power a
steam turbine to produce electric
ity.
Unlike the atom-splitting fission
reaction used in today's nuclear
power plants, nuclear fusion is con
sidered cleaner and less dangerous.
Scientists see tremendous poten
tial in fusion reactors. The basic
elements which will be used to fuel
fusion reactors are deuterium and
tritium, different forms of the ele
ment hydrogen.
“The potential payoff in this pro
gram is so enormous for civilization
that we can’t allow this possibility to
go untried, said Dr. Harry
Dreicer, head of the LASL Con
trolled Thermonuclear Research
Division.
ZT-40 is just one step in many
aimed at developing a workable fu
sion generating plant. But the steps
remaining are difficult ones and best
estimates are that the ultimate de
vice won t be operating until the
early part of the 21st century.
The key problem facing develop
ment is that fusion reactions only
occur at extreme temperatures, up
to 100 million degrees centigrade,
making it impossible for the reaction
to come in contact with any material
known to man.
ZT-40 is an experiment to contain
the reaction within a magnetic field
and keep it away from the walls of
the chamber where the reaction oc
curs.
Dreicer said the first injection of
reactants into the ZT-40 was made
Oct. 5. He said the device currently
is undergoing testing and debug
ging.
It is hoped that the preliminary
work can be completed so that by
April 1 “we can have a more or less
full-fledged operation, he said.
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WASHINGTON — A former
high-ranking government adminis
trator was charged with bribery as a
result of an investigation into
charges that he and others cheated
taxpayers out of more than $415,000
by setting up inflated or phony
General Services Adminstration
contracts.
Named in felony “information
charges filed in U.S. District Court
Tuesday was Robert Stevens, a
former contracts specialist at the
GSA Region III headquarters in
Washington.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William
S. Block, who filed the charges, said
they involve $850,0(X) in contracts
for which only $435,000 in work was
actually performed. Of the of the
more than $415,000 in alleged
fraud, government employees al
legedly received $350,000 in cash
and gratuities.
Sources said the filing of “ infor
mations,” rather than the return of
grand jury indictments against the
11 men involved, was an indication
they have agreed to plead guilty and
to tell what they know about other
corruption within the agency in re
turn for more lenient treatment.
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