European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday october 27,1987 is future brightening for nuclear fusion study indicates More Money time needed Washington a scientists will need higher research Budgie is and another to a cars 1o determine whether nuclear fusion the process that Power the Sun. Can fulfil its Bright Promise As a Safe and virtually unlimited source of Energy on Garth according to a major congressional study. The office of technology assessment in a comprehensive review of the nation s once secret fusion research pro Gram concluded that it is Likely Al though by no Means certain that the engineering work necessary to build an Lecci Rocity producing fusion reactor can be completed successfully Early in inc next Century. But the 30-year timetable the Ota said will require either substantial in creases in research funding currently about 1320 million per year or Moder ate increases coupled with better collaboration with fusion programs in Europe inc soviet Union and Japan. Same scientists View fusion Energy As inc Panacea hat could quench the world s thirst for electricity As conventional fuel supplies As Well As those for nuclear fission reactors dwindle. Their excitement dates to the discovery in i93s that fusion is inc Energy secret of the Sun explaining Why if has been Abuelo Shine for nearly 3 billion years while using Only about half of its original fuel. Nuclear fusion is the process by which inc nuclei or Central cores of two Niimi with  How nuclear fusion works the magnetic bottle technique swum ii i fusion Occi Whon Minuck a in Tanya feat com Tow b in Luca i Toavs Tow Neil. 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The big problem is that a fusion re action using Hydrogen Gas As fuel re quires temperatures exceeding 100 Mil lion degrees centigrade and no materials on Earth arc capable of con Laming fuels at such Cal the answer then is to contain the reaction in n magnetic Field when the fusion program started under the code name Sherwood projection 1951, some physicists predicted then they could build such a reactor within 30 years the same timetable now cited by the Ota. But the Ota the non partisan Arm of Congress that advises the House and Senate on technical issues said much Progress has been made in recent years experiments now built or proposed should Over the next few years resolve most of the major remaining scientific uncertainties regarding the fusion pro Cess the Ota said. Barring major sur Princi the technology to build a Proto Type commercial reactor is Likely it added. The Ota consulted with scores of physicists and other scientists before compiling its 236-Page report  useful ghost of Ben Franklin still hands out financial plums Philadelphia a in june 1789, an aged and ailing Benjamin Franklin amended his will to make a unusual bequest to the cities of Philadelphia and bos Tonthat is still in existence nearly 200 years later. "1 wish to be useful even after my  Franklin wrote adding that upon his demise he wanted ,000 British pounds from his a late to be Given to each of the cities. He said the Money should be used to provide Low inter est Loans to Young Marrie artificers under the go of 25 years who need help in starting businesses. As Franklin predicted inc Money he bequeath cd has grown into the millions. Bos ton s fund has More than $4 million and Philadelphia s has is. 9 million. While both cities have tried to remain True to Franklin s  Boston has been More aggressive and Philadelphia has been More. Well More like Philadelphia the Phila Delphia inquirer said in its Sun Day editions. As Franklin dictated the Money has been used for Loans. In recent years Philadelphia has granted about 95, Boston More than 1,400. Franklin decreed that the fund should be dissolved 200 Yean after his death which occurred on april 17, 1790. With a Little Over a quartet going to he cities an the Rise 10 their states to use As they want. Within decades of Franklin s death the number of applicants for the Money dropped in both cities As the tradition of apprenticeships faded. Philadelphia went to court to try to change the requirements but few people applied and from Benjamin Franklin jss5 to 1917, no one did. Philadelphia decided to build the Franklin Institute a science research Center and museum and an Art museum. The Art museum was completed in 1926, the Institute in 1934, Boston quickly gave up trying to find artificers t with 1400,000 from the fund matched by philanthropist an Drew Carnegie the Board built the Franklin technical Institute a two year Junior College that opened in 1908 and has educated More than 75,000 students. The Boston Board in 1962 also began giving Low interest Loans to needy medical students about 1,400 such Loans Are outstanding. In Philadelphia no Loans we remade Between 1917 and 1939. Fifteen were made in the 1940s and a few in the 19jos. Today the fund is used to make Home mortgage Loans to Philadelphia is at 9.5 percent in Terest. About 95 mortgages today Are outstanding. Only two were granted last year. With three years left in the fund overseers in Boston Al ready Are working to keep the Trust going and mayor Ray mond Flynn has had discussions with the Board. The mayor takes this very. Very  said Kevin m. Walsh director of Boston s Trust office. He is going to try to come up with a plan sensitive to the needs of the Franklin technical  in Philadelphia the Franklin Institute is inter ested in setting up awards in diplomacy and communications. William a. Meehan chairman of the City s trusts said the Board has t yet considered what to do with the Money. I m sure we will be addressing it in the next couple of years he said. Stateside Man walking on tracks killed by Conrail rain Natrona Heights a. A a 28-year-old Man was killed Here when he was hit by a train. Paramedics pronounced Joseph Kuci Slu of Harri son township dead saturday at the scene the Allegheny county Coroner s office said  was struck about 9 30 . By a Conrail train Raveling West the office said. Township police said they did not know Why Kucinski was walking on the tracks. Buick shows its Mettle Dodge Sheds its Metal Lancaster . A the Chance meeting Ofa parked 1941 Buick super and a Driver Les 1986 Dodge compact that repeatedly slammed into in lends credence to the adage that they really Don t make pm like they used  said Pauline Nugent 59, of Lancaster got out of her Dodge to pick up a newspaper sunday and left the car in reverse. Its Driver s door began striking the Buick s rear bumper police said. Carl doge who Osins the Buick and shows it in antique car competitions managed to hop into the Dodge and Stop it but not until the b6 had shed Metal while his car merely rocked Back and fourth. Dege said his car got several dents and will need a new bumper. Did you see the other car he asked. Well they could t drive  ritzy reef no longer worthy of Protection Palm Beach Fla. A most places dump old tires in inc water to create artificial reefs. But off Palm each icy dumped a 125,000 Rolls Royce and gov Emmen officials have Given up trying to protect it. Since inc 1967 Rolfs was placed Oft this exclusive Island two years ago divers have stripped it of jus labout everything of value from its hubcaps to its Jisoo Silver winged Hood ornament officials said. It was in perfect condition said Greg Hauptner the Hairdresser who donated the air. Even the Dock  Haup incr said at the time the Rolls was submersed that he was donating it to re Edom on a whim. Palm Beach county had hoped to protect the under sea jewel from salvages by declaring the car count property. But now the Saltwater and vandals have taken to Cir toll and the corroded car is no longer Worth protecting county officials say