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Fusion device at UW-Madison could unlock elusive technology

A team of UW-Madison physicists and engineers is looking to the past to power the future.Their $20 million contraption, tucked inside their underground Stoughton lab, features a series of stainless steel cylinders joined end to end, dotted with scrawled calculations and hooked up to a choreographed jumble of tubes, wires and machinery.