ABSTRACT
Deuterium-tritium is "fast neutron rich but energy poor" while fission is "neutron poor but energy rich". The consequence of this is that the combination of both processes in a hybrid reactor lowers the fusion gain requirements, respectively, the required Lawson number plus temperature parameters. A new design, Tokamak Fusion Core Experiment is earmarked to achieve ignition and long lasting plasma burning by 1993. The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, N. J., was well advanced to test feasibility in 1986. It is equipped with the most advanced monitoring devices to measure pressure, plasma current, and voltage, as well as plasma motion, electron density and temperature, ion temperature, plasma impurities, and fusion reactions. The ancillary technological problems which have to be solved in connection with the controlled fusion program are the subject of many conferences. All electronic devices connected in one way or another to a reactor, are being developed especially within the same funding program.
