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TRISOPS
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Thermonuclear Reactor In Support of Project Sherwood. Conceived by Daniel Wells at Princeton PPPL in the 1960s, moved to University of Miami. Used two conical θ-pinch guns producing counter-rotating plasma vortices that collided, repelled, and were compressed by 3.5 T mirror field. Achieved 5 μs lifetime, 2×10^17 cm^-3 density, 5 keV ion temperature. Lost NSF funding in 1978. Machine moved to Maryland in 1997 for CMTX continuation.
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Thermonuclear Reactor In Support of Project Sherwood. Conceived by Daniel Wells at Princeton PPPL in the 1960s, moved to University of Miami. Used two conical θ-pinch guns producing counter-rotating plasma vortices that collided, repelled, and were compressed by 3.5 T mirror field. Achieved 5 μs lifetime, 2×10^17 cm^-3 density, 5 keV ion temperature. Lost NSF funding in 1978. Machine moved to Maryland in 1997 for CMTX continuation.
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