Project Sherwood

Project Sherwood was the name given to the US program in controlled nuclear fusion funded under the Atoms for Peace initiative during the Eisenhower Administration.

Related Topics:
Nuclear fusion - Atoms for Peace - Eisenhower

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A string of funding helped to organise the efforts of several national labs, universities, and private endeavers into a loose progression of R&D that literally focused attention on plasma containment schemes as a first order of business.

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The project also helped to align and document some of the theoretical (and rhetorical) problems of the new science from the US perspective and present it in a declassified manner to the international effort.

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Unlike other nuclear projects such as the Manhattan Project and perhaps Project Pluto, Sherwood was less intense and treated as more of a novelty. With only very long-term economic implications and very remote military significance, the project attracted very little attention, but has its place in the Nuclear fusion saga.

Related Topics:
Manhattan Project - Project Pluto - Nuclear fusion saga

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