MIT's Fusion Reactor Broke a World Record Right Before the Feds Shut It Off
By Maddie Stone
MIT's fusion program has fallen on hard times, but that hasn't stopped it from smashing world records and keeping the dream of limitless, carbon-free energy alive. At an International Atomic Energy Agency summit in Japan this week, researchers involved with MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak reactor announced that their machine had generated the highest plasma pressure ever recorded.
October 17, 2016 at 05:30PM
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