thermonuclear
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Magnetic confinement devices—whether the doughnut-shaped tokamaks used in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project or the linear configuration pursued by TAE—rely on intricate magnetic fields to hold the plasma together.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
"The lawsuit is here. Thermonuclear it is not," quipped attorney Bradley Moss.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023
Thermonuclear supernovae are explosive deaths of white dwarfs caused by runaway nuclear reactions.
From Scientific American • Jul. 4, 2023
One project working to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion is ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
From National Geographic • Jun. 11, 2023
Thermonuclear reactions in the solar interior support the outer layers of the Sun and postpone for billions of years a catastrophic gravitational collapse.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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