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A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion -- the process that generates the sun's prodigious output of energy.
The new results come from an experimental device on the MIT campus, inspired by observations from space made by satellites. Called the Levitated Dipole Experiment, or LDX, a joint project of MIT and Columbia University, it uses a half-ton donut-shaped magnet about the size and shape of a large truck tire, made of superconducting wire coiled inside a stainless steel vessel.
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Un experiment care a permis reproducerea in laborator a caracteristicilor campurilor magnetice ale Pamantului si ale altor planete ar putea deschide o noua cale spre fuziunea nucleara, potrivit unui studiu publicat duminica de revista Nature Physics si citat de AFP.
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The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) is a project devoted to researching a nuclear fusion configuration which utilises a floating superconducting torus to provide an axisymmetric magnetic field which is used to contain plasma. It is a collaboration between Columbia University's Department of Applied Physics and the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Centre and is funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy.
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