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Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
Y. Narushima, K. Y. Watanabe, Y. Suzuki, S. Sakakibara, K. Ida, K. Narihara, N. Ohyabu, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 194-199
Chapter 4. MHD | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10806
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Spontaneous dynamics of magnetic islands depending on various plasma parameters in the Large Helical Device (LHD) are described. The structure of the magnetic island undergoes deformation during a discharge. There are two states of magnetic island; they are the growth and self-healing of the magnetic island. The self-healing occurs in the higher-beta and lower-collisionality plasmas. The magnetic island, on the other hand, grows in the lower-beta and higher-collisionality region. The self-healing phenomenon is realized by the disappearance of the local flattening of the Te profile and the perturbed magnetic field structure compensating the externally imposed perturbation field to produce a seed magnetic island.