10 Jan 2010
Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor

Hilarious. We've used a similar setup at work to test video cameras - for long runs with continuous movement, a model railroad can't be beat.

Physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built tracks inside a fusion reactor and ran a toy train for three days to help them with their calibrations.

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