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U.S. nuclear capacity factors: Ideal for data centers?
Baseload nuclear generation doesn’t get the respect it deserves, if you ask nuclear operators. But the hyperscale data centers that process our digital lives—like the one right next to the Susquehanna plant in northeastern Pennsylvania—are pushing electricity demand up. Clean, reliable capacity now looks a lot more valuable.
Robert Kin-Yan Wong, Edward C. Morse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 4 | July 1995 | Pages 364-376
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30357
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A quasi-optical electron cyclotron maser operating at 28 GHz is studied for applications in heating fusion plasmas. Large spherical mirrors with a small axial aperture and coupling mirror form the open resonator. In the experiment, both the large mirror and coupling mirror are adjusted to select a preferential mode of operation. This is found to improve the efficiency of interaction. Maximum efficiency was observed with a 2.5-A, 60-kV electron beam, with efficiency declining at higher currents. Water calorimetry was used to measure an efficiency of 10%. A photon-drag detector indicated higher peak power levels than those measured with calorimetry. The high-efficiency mode was due to the overlap of two cavity eigenmodes TEMn00 and TEM(n−1)10 (cylindrical notation) and to beam trapping effects that caused a better match between the beam footprint and the electric field profile than in other configurations tested.