Sometime in the mid-1970s, the Russian Soviet Center for Science Film produced a documentary on the early years of fusion research. "O lyudyakh I atomakh" ("Of people and atoms") takes us to the very beginning of the fusion adventure, when in 1950 a young soldier named Oleg Lavrentiev wrote a letter to Stalin describing his concept for an "electronic trap". This was later to evolve into "magnetic confinement". The "heroes" of fusion in Russia are all there: Lavrentiev, Igor Tamm, Igor Kurchatov, Boris Kadomtsev, Lev Artsimovitch etc.. The film even provides a glimpse of Vladimir Mukhovatov, now a senior scientist at ITER, back when he was a young scientist in the control room of T-4 - or was it T-6? "At the time", he says in this trailer, "we were building one and a half tokamaks every year." Click here to view the Featured Video... Click here to view the original documentary "Of Atoms and People" in Russian (29 minutes) Many more videos are available on the ITER video page... << return to Newsline #125 |
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