In the interestingly written piece by Robert Crease, "Visionary Physicist's Crusade Serves As Lesson In Futility" (The Scientist, Nov. 27, 1989, page 1), the reader is not told what has happened with our aneutronic energy research during the past 14 years. There are three areas in which this omission might grossly distort factual information:
In contrast, in the two-year period subsequent to the symposium (1988-89), 94 authors published 56 papers or reports on the subject. Four international gatherings on the subject were held in 1989; one book has been published (Aneutronic Energy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 271A, 1-240, 1988) and two are forthcoming.
While, strictly speaking, most of these ideas are not exactly mine, these numbers might serve as an indicator of the influence of the work of my group on the aneutronic direction in fusion research.
Tokamak T-20 was deleted from the five-year plan, 1976-80; a smaller version, T-15, ...
