MAGAZINE OF THE FUSION ENERGY FOUNDATION December 197^ $2.00/ .25 Steam Power How It Was Delayed 100 Years FUSION Features 26 Leibniz, Papin, and the Steam Engine: MAGAZINE Of THE FUSION ENERGY FOUNDATION A Case Study of British Sabotage Vol. 3, No. 3 Philip Valenti December 1979 ISSN 0148-0537 Impact Fusion: A New Look at an Old Idea Dr. John Schoonover 53 The North American Water and Power Alliance Proposal: Creating Water Resources for the Year 2000 Calvin Larson EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor-in-Chief Dr. Morris Levitt SPECIAL REPORT Associate Editor 8 Cambodia: The Destruction of a Civilization Dr. Steven Bardwell INTERNATIONAL Managing Editor 12 Mexican President Urges 'Power of Reason' to Resolve Marjorie Mazel Hecht Energy Crisis Fusion News Editor 13 Neporozhniy Dedicates First MHD Facility Charles B. Stevens 13 Saudi Oil Minister Endorses Fusion 13 New Soviet Plan Puts Science First Energy News Editors William Engdahl 14 Brazil's Energy—Nuclear or Biogas Marsha Freeman 14 FEF Designs Nuclear Plan for India NATIONAL Editorial Assistant Christina Nelson Huth 15 Shutdown of Hanford Facility Threatens Cancer Research 16 TVA Head Says 'No' to Nuclear Art Director Christopher Sloan 16 Meat Processors Urge U.S. to Co Nuclear WASHINGTON Assistant Art Director 17 FEF Postcard Campaign: Put Fusion On Line by 1995 Deborah Asch 17 McCormack Submits Add-On to Fusion Budget Graphics Assistants 18 Rep. Wydler Defuses Nuclear Safety Hysteria Gillian Cowdery 18 Presidential Commission May Call for Nuclear Moratorium Gary Genazzio 19 GAO Pans Fusion as 'Unknown' Advertising Manager FUSION NEWS Norman Pearl 21 Soviets Report Promising Results with Field-Reversed Fusion Subscription and 22 Sandia Shows Progress with Light Ion Beams Circulation Manager 22 Livermore Proposes New Fusion Approach Cynthia Parsons 22 PLT Scientists Report Observation of Thermonuclear Neutrons FUSION is published monthly, 10 times a year except CONFERENCES September and April, by the Fusion Energy Foundation 24 The Beginning of a Determinist Theory of Turbulence (FEF), 888 7th Ave., 24th Floor. Suite 2i04, New York, New York 10019, telephone (212) 265-3749. Subscriptions by mail are $18 for 10 issues or $34 for 20 issues in the USA and Canada, Airmail subscriptions to other countries are $36 for 10 issues. Address all correspondence to Fusion. Fusion Energy Foundation, 888 7th Ave., 24th Floor. Suite 2404, New Departments York, New York 10019, Second class postage paid at New York, New York. The FEF publishes a variety of material for the benefit of decision makers and the interested public. The views 2 EDITORIALS of the FEF are stated in the editorials. Opinions ex­ 3 CALENDAR pressed in signed articles are not necessarily those of the FEF directors or the scientific advisory board. 4 THE LIGHTNING ROD 4 LETTERS 6 NEWS BRIEFS Copyright © November 1979 20 INSIDE DOE Fusion Energy Foundation Printed in the USA 62 RESEARCH All Rights Reserved 62 BOOKS RECEIVED Courtesy of the Milwaukee Sentinel If Cod had meant us to use nuclear energy, He'd have given us brains I Nuclear Power Versus The New Dark Ages At a recent speaking appearance in Hartford, Connecticut, antinuclear media star Tom Hayden was stopped dead in his tracks when a pronuclear spokesman associated with the Fusion Energy Foundation confronted him. "Being against nuclear power means being against the development and survival of several billion people in the Third World, and it means the Cambodian model of genocidal depopulation," the pronuclear spokesman told the audience. Hayden had no reply. There is more than hypocrisy involved in claiming to be simultaneously humanitarian and antinuclear, or in claiming ignorance of the connection between attacks on nuclear power and the genocide in Cambodia (Kampuchea) documented in this issue of Fusion. The larger strategic question involved is whether the United States will continue to support the most backward policies or, instead, will join with its sister republics of France, Mexico, and West Germany to implement a new monetary system and investment fund that can break the back of the present economic downslide and political chaos. This pOses a challenge to the supporters of nuclear power as well. You can't be pronuclear and tolerate the International Monetary Fund "conditionalities" of perpetual austerity or its U.S. corollary, the credit strangulation policy of Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. (Volcker, it should be noted, not only participated in the Council on Foreign Relations 7980s Project that calls for FUSION "controlled disintegration in the world economy," but has enthusiastically Calendar endorsed such "disintegration" by name.) December Development Versus Disintegration 3-7 Nuclear power cannot exist as the energy supply of a depression-ridden little Symposium on Surface Mining, island surrounded by a collapsing world. Hydrology, Sedimentology, Nuclear power is a universal energy source, appropriate to development and Reclamation everywhere. It means the universal progress of humanity in transition to the Mining and Mineral Research Institute new world epoch of fusion and plasma-based technologies. But universal Lexington, Kentucky technology can exist only in a world of global-scale development in which the scientific and industrial genius of America and its people is realized to its 6-7 fullest potentiality. That can happen only with full U.S. participation and Power Industry Development leadership in the European Monetary System and the European Monetary and Application of MHD Fund, to gear up hundreds of billions of dollars worth of U.S. nuclear and Technology in the Soviet Union other capital exports. Institute for Advanced Technology This is precisely what leading officials like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance are Washington, D.C. determined to prevent. Is Vance, the New York Council on Foreign Relations' man, merely a hypocrite because he stonewalled on aid to the barely alive 10-13 survivors of the holocaust in Cambodia and is now demanding that the Phnom In-Service Inspection of Nuclear Penh government bend to his "conditions" to get the food aid it needs? After Power Plants all, Vance is a supporter of the council's policy of "controlled disintegration in Technical Seminars, Inc. New York the world economy," and he officially stated that he will not permit transfer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. U.S. nuclear and other advanced technology to the Third World. Is that how to create independent and viable allies for the United States? Is 11-12 Vance's culpability less than that of the barbarians who committed the actual Power Industry Development decapitation of Cambodia's doctors, scientists, and intellectuals? Should Vance and Application of MHD be considered less responsible than closet-Maoist Ralph Nader, who long Technology in the Soviet Union before his antinuclear days called for "the industrial oppressor to experience Institute for Advanced Technology directly what it is like to be himself oppressed?" San Francisco We cannot call ourselves human if we do not do all we can to ease the pain of Cambodia and restore it to life. We cannot call ourselves pronuclear if we do 17-21 not make the commitment to eliminate and replace the institutions and policies Lasers '79, Int'l Conference that are the source of the Malthusian evil behind the destruction of on Lasers and Applications civilization in Cambodia. Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics Orlando, Fla. Money Is Better The near-term potential of fusion energy has been receiving significantly more attention lately in the media. Words are nice, but money is better. Join us in The budget baseline to keep the magnetic confinement part of the fusion celebrating the Fusion program moving ahead is contained in the model legislation appearing in this Energy Foundation's issue's Washington news section. There are two points to make. First, the fusion research effort has demonstrated an excellent record of meeting or 5th anniversary exceeding program goals according to DOE schedule. Second, there has been Friday, November 30 a direct correlation between money put into the program and results pro­ 8 p.m. duced. These facts and future energy needs are indisputable. Now is the time to Grand Ballroom, throw in the massive support for accelerated fusion development that the Biltmore Hotel Fusion Energy Foundation and Fusion Magazine have been building. As we 43rd Street and pass the fifth anniversary of the FEF and are well into the third volume of Madison Avenue Fusion, our circulation of 75,000, subscribership of 27,000, and membership of 3,000 continue to grow rapidly. New York City Let's put our numbers to effective use. Use the attached postcard to send to $25 per person Congressman Mike McCormack and others to promote an upgrading of the U.S. RSVP: Mike Tobin at the FEF fusion effort; use the other attached subscription and gift postcard to build our New York office strength even further. P.S. Happy Holidays to all readers and contributors to FusionW FUSION U.S. Secretary of Defense by applying computerized accounting principles of "cost-effectiveness" to the science of war. ThiS activity produced that im­ The mensely juseful statistic known as the "body cdunt." The United States won many battles with that weapon—on Letters Lightninj paper. I am afraid that, along with his large To the Editor: computers, Mr. McNamara possesses While racing to catch a plane at the a small Spirit, too small to allow him San )ose, California airport I encoun­ Rod much success in any endeavor respect­ tered two of your disciples. The 30 ing human progress. I have always seconds they asked for turned into been of the opinion that our problem 3.5 minutes which caused me to miss is not that of "too many people," but my flight. The inconvenience and My dear friends, of not enough who are equipped to anger I suffered vanished as I plunged It saddens me to observe that, for do what must be done.