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===Tokamak=== By the early 1960s, the [[fusion power]] field had grown large enough that the researchers began organizing semi-annual meetings that rotated around the various research establishments. In 1968, the now-annual meeting was held in [[Novosibirsk]], where the Soviet delegation surprised everyone by claiming their [[tokamak]] designs had reached performance levels at least an [[order of magnitude]] better than any other device. The claims were initially met with skepticism, but when the results were confirmed by a UK team the next year, this huge advance led to a "virtual stampede" of tokamak construction.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=George |last=Thomson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYou4nC43PUC&pg=PA11 |title=Thermonuclear Fusion: The Task and the Triumph |magazine=New Scientist |date=30 January 1958 |volume=3 |issue=63 |pages=11β13 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the US, one of the major approaches being studied up to this point was the [[stellarator]], whose development was limited almost entirely to the PPPL. Their latest design, the Model C, had recently gone into operation and demonstrated performance well below theoretical calculations, far from useful figures. With the confirmation of the Novosibirsk results, they immediately began converting the Model C to a tokamak layout, known as the [[Symmetrical Tokamak]] (ST). This was completed in the short time of only eight months, entering service in May 1970. ST's computerized diagnostics allowed it to quickly match the Soviet results, and from that point, the entire fusion world was increasingly focused on this design over any other.<ref name=cancer>{{cite magazine |title=Major Advances in Cancer Research and at Forrestal |first=Laurence |last=Chase |magazine=Princeton Alumni Weekly |volume=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxlbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA111 |page=19 |date=8 December 1970}}</ref>
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