Abstract

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF-B) was built to prove that a design using magnetic mirrors could compete in an international race to produce a commercial fusion reactor. The MFTF-B was to be used to propel the magnetic mirror program into a real contest against Livermore's arch rival: the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and its tokamak machine. On 21 February 1986, after 9 years of construction and $372 million, MTFT-B was officially dedicated. However, due to budget restriction DOE demanded the facility be put on standby the very next day.

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