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Nucl. Fusion 59 (2019) 112009 Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the entire TAE Team for their dedi- cated work and effort on the C-2W project, our Budker Insti- tute colleagues for many key contributions to our experiments including studies of open-field-line plasmas and divertor phys- ics as well as the key neutral beam development, other scien- tific and engineering collaborators including Google team for system/plasma optimization as well as plasma reconstruction effort, and our shareholders who made this exciting research effort possible.
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