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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 Laboratory (LANL), he whimsically named the device on the chance that it might be able to create fusion reactions. The first example was built in the winter of 1952/53, and it quickly demonstrated a series of instabilities in the plasma that plagued the pinch concept. A series of modifications followed which attempted to correct these problems, leading to the ultimate "S-4" model. None of these proved fruitful.

early fusion model power device

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  1. Phillips, pg. 64
  2. Phillips, pg. 65
  3. Herman, pg. 40
  4. Bromberg, pg. 20
  5. Bromberg, pg. 25
  6. Bromberg, pg. 21
  7. Herman, pg. 41
  8. Martin Kruskal and Martin Schwarzschild, "Some Instabilities of a Completely Ionized Plasma", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 1954, pg. 348
  9. Phillips, pg. 66
  10. Bromberg, pg. 58
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