Scyllac expires: And now there are two

Gloria B. Lubkin · Physics Today · 1977

Last year ERDA gave Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory a deadline of September 1977 to demonstrate stabilization of plasma in Scyllac, a circular theta-pinch device that had been one of the three major components of the magnetic-fusion program (PHYSICS TODAY, July 1976, page 17). Now ERDA and Los Alamos have decided to terminate operation of Scyllac between 1 July and 30 September.

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