MIT fights to keep its defunded fusion program
MIT houses a lot of futuristic-looking devices, and some actually focus on technology that – at this point — we can only imagine. One would be the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a warehouse-sized, magnetized device that scientists are using to do research on fusion energy. This tokamak, one of three in the U.S., looks like a 20-foot high water tank overrun by pipes, vents, pumps and monitoring devices. Read more
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