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Name: june hagberg
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Date: Around 1993
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Is there a material, at present, that can facilitate a controlled fusion reaction? If so, what is this material and how readily available is it?


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Not really. So far I think the record for a sustained fusion reaction is still less than a second. This (I believe) was at the Princeton Tokamac experiment. The mixture of tritium deuterium is contained in a toroidal magnetic field and is excited by some type of accelerator to fusion tempera- tures. You should probably ask the same question of the Physicists because they are more likely the ones that keep up with this technology.

david r munoz

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