The success of Alcator A led to the conceptual design, beginning in 1975, of a larger machine called Alcator B. However, the motor-generators used for Alcator A would not be powerful enough to drive the larger Alcator B machine, necessitating the purchase and installation of new power supplies, a cost which the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) was unwilling to fund.
The TMX was formally purposed by Fred Coensgen and the Livermore team on January 12, 1977 to the US Energy Research and Development Administration.
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Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy.