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US Fusion Experimenters Want to Try Tokomaks Now

JUL 01, 1969

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035677

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The recent visit of Lev Artsimovich to the US, in which he reported significant plasma confinement at thermonuclear temperatures in the Tokomak T‐3 (PHYSICS TODAY, June, page 54), has generated a wave of US proposals to build Tokomaks or Tokomak‐like devices. Among the laboratories proposing Tokomak experiments are Princeton, Oak Ridge, MIT, University of Texas and Gulf General Atomic.

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