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To: RetiredNow who wrote (212674)12/4/2004 6:06:07 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1578302
 
"Here's the article I read on it:"

Interesting, it's a tokamak. If they can get confinement of 400 seconds, that would be a big step. Be aware though, the US is involved in this project and has been except for a few years when ITER wasn't going anywhere.

Most of the recent work has been with inertial confinement fusion(ICF). Tokamaks, by their nature, are very big. ICF promises to be smaller power generation facilities.