The EAST fusion-research tokamak at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, China. Credit: Institute of Plasma Physics at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Nature 632, 968-970 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02759-x
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