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Science 13 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5797, p. 239
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5797.239
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FUSION REACTOR:
How to Squeeze a Plasma

Daniel Clery

After numerous attempts during the 1940s and 1950s to find an arrangement of magnets to confine a plasma--an ionized gas--two Soviet physicists came up with the tokamak. The name derives from the Russian words for "toroidal chamber in magnetic coils." (Read more.)

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)