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IAEA promoting nuclear energy with G20
The International Atomic Energy Agency launched a collaboration with the Group of 20 this week to highlight the key role that nuclear energy can play in achieving energy security and climate-change goals.
The aim of this first-of-its-kind partnership with G20—the world’s largest economic group—is to build momentum for nuclear power. This is the first time the IAEA has presented to G20 on issues relating to nuclear power.
S.K. Ho, G.R. Smith, W.M. Nevins, G.H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1171-1176
Fusion Reactor Design—II | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24889
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The modeling of the steady-state fusion-born alpha particle distribution in a mirror loss-cone is investigated. The Legendre function expansion and diffusion-front methods are reviewed and examined. The diffusion-front method is shown to be an accurate and efficient method for alpha-loss-cone instability calculations in a tandem mirror fusion device.
