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| Keywords: TMX Baseball Coils.jpg Building on the success of the 2XIIB magnetic mirror device in the mid-1970s the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers developed plans for the 94-million Magnetic Fusion Test Facility MFTF as the next step toward a reactor Before construction started in October 1977 physicists T Kenneth Fowler and Grant Logan independently came up with an improvement the idea of a tandem mirror Two mirrors would be at the ends of a central cylinder where the plasma would be confined The Laboratory moved quickly to build the Tandem Mirror Experiment TMX an 11 4 million fusion experiment to test the idea Technician Sam Espinoza is shown checking the alignment of one of the mirror magnets as construction of the TMX construction neared completion A magnetic mirror is a magnet thatcan be shaped like the seam of a baseball which produces magnetic forces that increase in every direction away from the center of the mirror region A fusion plasma shaped like a twisted bow tie is confined inside a magnetic mirror Bsr The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Flickr Stream 1977 Robert H Hirschfeld PD-USGov Original upload log en wikipedia TMX+Baseball+Coils jpg wikitable - 2013-07-12 21 29 1032×769× 88006 bytes WikiHelper2134 Uploading a public-domain item using File Upload Wizard Uncategorized 2016 February 26 | ||||
