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Fusion Device

The tokamak, the leading experimental reactor design for confining plasma to sustain a controlled nuclear fusion reaction. Belongs here: fusion-specific reactor technology. Does not belong here: fission reactor designs, grouped under Nuclear Reactor, which sustain a different nuclear reaction.

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Era of Emergence
1940 1
Physical Basis
Nuclear Fusion 1
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1. Fusion power - Wikipedia
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Research on fusion reactors began in the 1940s.
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