Development
A nuclear reactor is airlifted for the first time
Claim
The Department of War executed Operation Windlord, the first C-17 airlift of a nuclear reactor, while Helion's Polaris became the first privately funded machine to achieve deuterium-tritium fusion at 150 million degrees.
Reported metric: 150M degrees
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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