In its March issue, the magazine Physics Today published letters from prominent critics of the fusion program.

Long planned, it was to represent the next big step for the American fusion program.

It also had some immediate benefits for the fusion programme in Britain.

Although the detailed processes and fuels differ from those in the hot fusion programme, the end result - self-sustained power - is the same.

He hadn't, but the announcement jump-started the fusion program in the United States.

"He was really one of the giants of the fusion program."

It is striking that the Council never makes cuts in nuclear energy or nuclear fusion programmes.

The fusion programme has not yet produced any energy.

There are a lot of comments made in the report about the fusion programme, but they are not relevant to this particular discussion.

The lack of openness and democratic accountability of the fusion programme has been called into question and must be made good.