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General Fusion Hits 12 Million°C Plasma in Lawson Machine
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- General Fusion heated plasma to over 12 million °C, reaching 1.1 keV electron temperature in Lawson Machine 26.
- Surpassing 1 keV marks a rare international fusion milestone.
- The reactor used Magnetized Target Fusion with low-speed mechanical compression, avoiding large superconducting magnets or high-powered lasers.
- UK Atomic Energy Authority provided Thomson scattering diagnostics via a custom polychromator from Culham.
- Engineers plan to reach 10 keV (~100 million °C) after posting data online and submitting to a peer-reviewed journal.