A Toroidal matter control chamber is a form of nuclear fusion device that was to test the concept of fusion generated electricity. It was seen as a better option than nucliar fission, which produced waste matter. The original concept was laid out by Oleg Lavrentiev and this lead to the Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov creating it in the early 1950s. A offical one was built at the Kurchatov Institute, Moscow by a group of Soviet scientists led by Lev Artsimovich in 1956. 2 more were built in Moscow, then the much larger T-4 was tested in 1968 in Novosibirsk, thus conducting the first ever quasistationary thermonuclear fusion reaction.
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