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  1. Experimental machine designed to investigate
  2. nuclear fusion. It consists of a chamber
  3. surrounded by electromagnets capable of
  4. exerting very powerful magnetic fields. The
  5. fields are generated to confine very hot
  6. (millions of degrees) plasma, keeping it away
  7. from the chamber walls. See also JET.
  8.