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MIT fusion reactor aids study of nuclear energy.(BUSINESS TRENDS)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Brief article)
Advanced Materials & Processes, April, 2007
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For about six months of the year, bursts of a hot, electrically charged gas, or plasma, swirl around a donut-shaped tube in a fusion reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. MIT's reactor, known as Alcator C-Mod, is one of several tokamak plasma discharge reactors in the world.
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Inside the reactor, magnetic fields control the superheated plasma (up to 50 million degrees Kelvin) as it flows around ...
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