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  • This theme was born as a joke at the Plasma developers meeting called Tokamak 4 held in Nuremberg.

    KDE-Look.org Content 2010

  • Trying to be worth my classified salt, as it has already been said, I was glad when Tamm or Sakharov (I do not remember exactly who of them), having once come to Moscow in 1950, told me of the problem of controlled thermonuclear synthesis and the "Tokamak" system offered by them.

    Vitaly L. Ginzburg - Autobiography 2004

  • These large photographs, which have titles such as Tokamak Asdex Upgrade Periphery and Stellarator Wendelstein 7-x, are as complex as his jungles are calming or his earlier street scenes are austere.

    Thomas Struth: photos so complex 'you could look at them forever' 2011

  • These large photographs, which have titles such as Tokamak Asdex Upgrade Periphery and Stellarator Wendelstein 7-x, are as complex as his jungles are calming or his earlier street scenes are austere.

    Thomas Struth: photos so complex 'you could look at them forever' 2011

  • This work culminated in the world-record performance of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), which operated at PPPL from 1982 to 1997.

    Contributor: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2010

  • Currently, Big Science, Big Government is backing a derivative of the Russian Tokamak technology, called ITER.

    Wiffle Ball Progress Edstock 2009

  • Currently, Big Science, Big Government is backing a derivative of the Russian Tokamak technology, called ITER.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Edstock 2009

  • In the USA, the PLT tokamak at Princeton produced a plasma temperature of more than 60 million degrees in 1978 and D-T experiments began on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) there in 1993.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • In Japan, experiments have been carried out since 1988 on the JT-60 Tokamak.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • Dr. Bussard outlines the basics, shows where they went wrong, what they learned, and why the Tokamak approach is futile.

    Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008

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