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The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)

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Re: The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)

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This field is so underfunded, but progress is still being made. Check out Commonwealth Fusion and their progress with insanely powerful compact energy efficient magnets. They recently clocked a stable 20T magnetic field.

Re: The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)

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If you're the type to read comments before the article itself, do yourself a favour and click over if only for the fantastic, sci-fi level design of this device. Incredibly cool-looking.

Wow. It almost looks alien - insanely cool, and thanks for the push, it's quite an interesting article.

Re: The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)

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I worked at a fusion lab at UW Madison for a few years. There is a statue of these mirror magnets (with a poetically broken water display). The way MFTF funding cut as soon as it was complete was a generational shock to fusion researchers. The taste still hasn't left peoples' mouths.
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