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Mark Peters: Building on a strong foundation
Summer at the American Nuclear Society carries with it a sense of renewed momentum as the incoming president takes office and starts making plans for the year ahead. This has been particularly true in the last few years, as nuclear energy moves into a new era marked by broader public interest, stronger policy support, and a growing sense of possibility across the field. Mark Peters, the Society’s 72nd president, shares that optimism—and he is focused on turning it into results.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 177-179
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1343
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The effects of non-axisymmetric magnetic field on characteristics of a direct energy converter (DEC) with an axisymmetric cusp configuration are studied. The axisymmetric Cusp DEC (Kobe Cusp) is installed at the end of the GAMMA 10 device, which breaks the axisymmetry of the DEC. It is clarified that the nonaxisymmetric magnetic field changes the Störmer potential at the stagnation and the equilibrium electric field by the order of the perturbation field to the equilibrium magnetic field.
