Financial pinch kills British RFX pinch

The British Atomic Energy Authority has cancelled the Reversed Field Experiment. The £20‐million RFX magnetic‐confinement‐fusion facility, planned for the Culham Laboratory in Oxfordshire, was to have been the world's most ambitious reversed‐field‐pinch machine to date. With its cancellation, for budgetary reasons, American plans for full participation in the RFX have come to a sudden and disappointing end (PHYSICS TODAY, September 1981, page 20).