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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
T. Yokoyama et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 262-264
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16922
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On the GAMMA 10 tandem mirror, Magneto Hydro Dynamic (MHD) stabilization is kept with high pressure plasmas in the minimum-B anchor cell. To enhance ion heating in the anchor cell, direct anchor heating is introduced with an anchor antenna. The enhancement of the anchor heating is clearly observed. However, the antenna loading is very small in the case of strait bar-type antenna. In this paper, a newly designed antenna is introduced for the anchor heating. The antenna shape is improved to be an elliptical shape for matching the plasma shape. Three dimensional numeral simulation is introduced for the evaluation antenna loading with the antenna shape. Remarkable improvement is observed both in the experiment and in the simulation.
