In two years, Richter's projectracks up a bill of almost $300 million. Peron needs to...

[narrator] In two years, Richter's project
racks up a bill of almost $300 million. Peron needs to keep
the news of his investment in hydrogen fusion
under his hat in hydrogen fusion
under his hat because the last thing
Peron wants is Uncle Sam coming down
into South America and stopping him. This is the building where the nuclear reactor
was installed, where a success
of the proposal made to Peron was allegedly
going to happen. So Richter had built
this reactor, but for him,
he said the key part of it but for him,
he said the key part of it was this thing called
the Thermotron, which was the thing
that generated the vast amounts of energy
to cause nuclear fusion. But Dr. Richter kept
the design of his thermotron a closely guarded secret