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FMIT: Fusion Materials Irradiation Test. 



FTU: Tokamak planned for 1987 operation at Frascati, Italy. 



IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency. 



IBM: International Business Machines Corporation. 



lEA: International Energy Agency. 



Impurities: Atoms heavier than the fusion fuel, the presence of which 

 in the fuel volume can remove by radiation the energy needed to 

 sustain ignition. 



INTELSAT: International Telecommunications Satellite Organization. 



INTOR: International Tokamak Reactor. 



IPP: Institute for Plasma Physics, Nagoya University, Japan. 



JAERI: Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. 



JET: Joint European Torus, at the JET Joint Undertaking, near 

 Abindgon, in Oxfordshire, England. 



JIPPT: Stellarator hybrid, Japan. 



JT-60: Tokamak under construction at the Japan Atomic Energy Research 

 Institute. 



LCT: Large Coil Task. 



LCTF: Large Coil Test Facility, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 



LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 



Magnetic confinement: Any scheme that seeks to isolate a hot (fusion) 

 plasma from its surroundings by using magnetic lines of force to 

 direct the charged particles. 



MFAC: Magnetic Fusion Advisory Committee, advisory to the Office of 

 Fusion Energy, U. S. Department of Energy. 



MFTF: Mirror Fusion Test Facility, Lawrence Livermore National 

 Laboratory. 



MITI: Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan. 



