Monkhorst A New Approach to Fusion Monkhorst Working on Potential Fusion Breakthrough Henk Monkhorst's latest research, published in a recent Science article, seems almost too good to be true. But as exciting as this news sounds, Monkhorst is the first to quell potential hype.
Nothing is certain yet.
It is a design that has been very well thought out, but we see a lot of things that have to be fine tuned, and we cannot do that until we conduct further experiments and make more refined calculations. Monkhorst has been pursuing ideas of fusion for over a decade. Monkhorst describes the process of fusion which should occur in the central chamber of his new reactor. In the summer of 1994, Monkhorst contacted his future partner, Norman Rostoker, at UC-Irvine. While Monkhorst had worked on fusion ideas that centered around particle beam technology, Rostoker had largely focused on ideas using plasma physics.