Naa the Japanese won't develope it, but they will make its smaller, more efficient and better 
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Yeps!
And with distastefull small lights that winks - and in the shape of a 13 yo school girl!!
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Doc's spot on.. too ineffecient
why in the world did they ignor Farnsworth
Sasq's assertion is also correct
But leave it to the American's it would require a new super battleship to hold it!
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But the magnetic constriction is whats in StarTrek, so its got to work!!!
The Farnsworth stuff does look interesting, but I do wonder how big the containment chamber would have to be, and how fast the material gets saturated with nutrons.Comment
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The FUSOR's I've read about have chambers the size of a tennis ball and some with significant neutron fluxes using standard power sources. The U of Wisconsin achieved 2.2 x 10^7 neutrons/s in their low powered experiements using D-D.
There is a community of amature FUSOR (actually IEC: inertial electrostatic confinement) experimenters. You might want to read some of their results then extrapolate what would happen with some serious facilities.
An excellent article putting the IEC/magnetic/laser fusion issues into perspective was published by The American Scientist back in 1999:
I find the summary paragraphs very provocative....
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