§ 54. Mr. Woodburnasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress has been made in the efforts to discover a practical method of creating power by fusion; and whether research is still proceeding.
§ Sir E. BoyleResearch in this field is centred on the Atomic Energy Authority's new laboratory at Culham. Progress has been made in the understanding of plasma behaviour, in the various methods of containing plasma by magnetic fields and in the scientific and technological problems involved. A fuller account is given in the authority's Ninth Annual Report.