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Science 21 November 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5342, pp. 1419 - 1422
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5342.1419
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Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor

Norman Rostoker, Michl W. Binderbauer, Hendrik J. Monkhorst

Recent results with Tokamak experiments provide insights into the problem of magnetic confinement. They demonstrate how to avoid anomalous transport and thus solve the major problems of Tokamak reactors: size, the production of 14-megaelectron volt neutrons, and maintenance. An alternate confinement system, the field-reversed configuration, confines beams of protons and boron-11. For the proton-boron-11 fusion reaction, the fusion products are all charged particles for which direct conversion is feasible and neutron flux is negligible.

N. Rostoker and M. W. Binderbauer are with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA. H. J. Monkhorst is with the Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8435, USA.

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