The Perhapsatron was an early fusion power device based on the pinch concept in the 1950s. Conceived by James (Jim) Tuck while working at Los Alamos National...
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Teague Running time 26–46 minutes Production companies Tilted Productions Perhapsatron Fan Dancer Original release Network Netflix Release June 23, 2017 (2017-06-23) –...
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fusion efforts around the world, notably in the UK and in the US (see Perhapsatron, a z-pinch machine at LANL). Small experiments were built at labs as...
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thermonuclear fusion for power generation, for which he developed the Perhapsatron. Retired from LANL in 1972 but remained in Los Alamos for the rest of...
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budget and started a pinch project under the name Perhapsatron. Like all pinch systems, Perhapsatron failed due to instabilities in the plasma. Theoretical...
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their own funding. Tuck had managed to arrange some funding for his Perhapsatron through some discretionary budgets at LANL, but other teams at LANL,...
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give him US$50,000 from the discretionary budget, using it to build the Perhapsatron. In 1950 Fuchs admitted to passing UK and US atomic secrets to the USSR...
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Philosophical Society (1981) Asteroid 4463 Marschwarzschild Stratoscope Perhapsatron Betelgeuse Interchange instability Mestel, L. (1999). "Martin Schwarzschild...
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Laboratory. Tuck introduces the British pinch work to LANL. He develops the Perhapsatron under the codename Project Sherwood. The project name is a play on his...
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Trap at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Akademgorodok, Russia. Perhapsatron (1953, USA) ZETA (Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly) (1957, United Kingdom)...
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Spitzer's pitch, he applied to build a pinch machine of his own, the Perhapsatron. Spitzer's idea won funding and he began work under Project Matterhorn...
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funding, he immediately applied as well, presenting his concept as the Perhapsatron. He felt that Spitzer's claims to have a fast track to fusion were "incredibly...
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Spitzer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the toroidal pinch or Perhapsatron led by James Tuck at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the magnetic...
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Perfect mirror Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track Perhapsatron Perifocal coordinate system Perigean spring tide Perimeter Institute...
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Peek's law Pegasus Toroidal Experiment Penning mixture Penrose criterion Perhapsatron Phased plasma gun Photon Photonic metamaterial Photonics Physical cosmology...
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Alamos, Tuck introduced the pinch concept there, and eventually built the Perhapsatron along the same lines. In early 1950 Klaus Fuchs' admitted to turning...
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