Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scientists who strive toward achieving thermonuclear power-the controlled fusion of hydrogen-have fooled themselves so many times that they are reluctant to claim success. But last week in Washington, Dr. James L. Tuck of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory told the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy: "We are now prepared to stake our reputations that we have a thermonuclear reaction...
...Shaped Fireball. The success cautiously announced by Dr. Tuck was achieved by Scylla, a cylindrical chamber about 30 inches long in which deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...
...salt water fisherman will be trying to catch sharks similar to the seven-foot blue which Fieser landed off Cape Cod after a nip-and-tuck battle for several hours...