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The present understanding of the physics and technology problems of confining a hot plasma ring by magnetic fields and of heating it to such temperatures that thermonuclear fusions between deuterium and tritium nuclei provide the energy required to maintain this temperature seems to allow to predict the possibility of a self-sustaining thermonuclear reactor. Imbedding this chance into world energy scenarios for the next fifty years, it is shown that fusion reactors of a type of which each may supply about ten slow fission reactors with fissionable material may play a critical rôle by drastically reducing the number of required fast fission breeder reactors.
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Überarbeitete Fassung des öffentlichen Vortrags bei der Hauptversammlung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft am 21. Mai 1981 in Berlin.
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Schlüter, A. Kernfusion und das Energieproblem. Naturwissenschaften 69, 226–235 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398638
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