Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates
September 8, 2021In the media
On September 5, 2021, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth.
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