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The Diffusion Inhibitor is the first known attempt to build a working fusion power device. It was designed and built at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA) Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory beginning in the spring of 1938. The basic concept was developed by Arthur Kantrowitz and his boss, Eastman Jacobs. They deliberately picked a misleading name to avoid the project being detected by NACA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., as they believed it would immediately be cancelled if their superiors learned of it.

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  • The Diffusion Inhibitor is the first known attempt to build a working fusion power device. It was designed and built at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA) Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory beginning in the spring of 1938. The basic concept was developed by Arthur Kantrowitz and his boss, Eastman Jacobs. They deliberately picked a misleading name to avoid the project being detected by NACA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., as they believed it would immediately be cancelled if their superiors learned of it. In overall terms, the device was very similar to the toroidal magnetic confinement fusion reactor designs that emerged in the 1950s and 60s, with a strong physical resemblance to the z-pinch and tokamak devices. The major difference was that it used radio waves to heat the plasma while using the magnetic field for confinement alone, not compression. After several early experiments which showed no sign of high-energy releases, NACA director George William Lewis happened into the lab and immediately shut it down. (en)
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  • The Diffusion Inhibitor is the first known attempt to build a working fusion power device. It was designed and built at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA) Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory beginning in the spring of 1938. The basic concept was developed by Arthur Kantrowitz and his boss, Eastman Jacobs. They deliberately picked a misleading name to avoid the project being detected by NACA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., as they believed it would immediately be cancelled if their superiors learned of it. (en)
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