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Currently, governments fund most fusion research. In the USA, progress has been severely constrained by the availability of federal research dollars and an absence of policy decisions to construct new fusion facilities. For example, following the success of the US TFTR in the mid-1990s, Congress cut fusion funding rather than to authorize the construction of a more advanced facility. Congress, at the time, had embarked on a “cut federal spending in general” budget frenzy that periodically dominates Washington thinking. As this book goes to press (September 2012), we are in the midst of another such frenzy, brought about by a desire “to cut the federal deficit.”
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Dean, S.O. (2013). The Ultimate Energy Source?. In: Search for the Ultimate Energy Source. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6037-4_15
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