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FUSION reactors , *PLASMA gas research , *HIGH temperature plasmas - Abstract
Reports that the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory attained the temperature of 200 million degrees Celsius in its Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). Significance of the temperature in the development of fusion reactors that generate electricity; Details of how deuterium gas can become an ultrahot gas, or plasma; Goal of the TFTR experiments; Evidence collected during the experiment of the so-called bootstrap current.
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- 1986