A fact from Astron (fusion reactor) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2011 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Nicholas Christofilos designed the Astron fusion power machine while selling elevators? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Astron (fusion reactor).

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The lede of the article says "Work on similar designs appears to have demonstrated a theoretical problem in the very design that suggests it could never be used for practical generation." However, at the end of the article is "The last version of this effort, FIREX, shut down in 2003, having disproved what appears to be a purely theoretical reason why the Astron concept will never work." which seems to contradict the lede. I could not find a statement in the body of the article that supported the lede's claim. Spinning Spark 08:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC) reply

Indeed it does, that "dis" should not be there… Lion's auto-correct can be a little surprising some times ;-) Maury Markowitz ( talk)

What is "Coleman" -- a book? Which? 129.67.86.189 ( talk) 16:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC) reply

See Bibliography section 122.106.177.130 ( talk) 21:33, 13 November 2011 (UTC) reply