Miles O’Brien:
Well, this one which is designed to help bomb-makers do their job, and we get some energy out of it.
The other idea, which was thought of initially as a way to produce civilian electricity, is called a tokamak, which is a giant racetrack, donut-style racetrack with magnets, huge facilities which create the circumstances where you can fuse these atoms in a very different way.
And there's half-a-dozen or so these projects all around the world, public and private. And they are making steady progress. But this is tough. And, despite all the talk today about the U.S. being leaders in all this, the other — there are other nations which are kind of driving the bus on this.
I spoke with the president of Fusion Power Associates, Steve Dean, who's been in this business for 60 years. He's sort of seen him come and he's seen them go. Listen to what he has to say.
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