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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Sung-Ryul Huh, Nam-Kyun Kim, Yun-Chang Jang, Jae-Min Song, Gon-Ho Kim
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 105-112
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-892
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The characteristics of a two–radio-frequency (RF)–driven dual antenna inductively coupled hydrogen plasma is investigated for the development of a high efficient RF negative hydrogen ion source driver. The two-RF-driven dual antenna system consists of a 2 MHz–driven solenoidal antenna wound around a cylindrical chamber and a 13.56 MHz–driven planar antenna placed on top of it. Compared to the conventional single frequency antenna inductively coupled plasmas, the two-RF-driven dual antenna inductively coupled plasma reveals two distinctive features, i.e., an increase in the power transfer efficiency and the bi-Maxwellization of the electron energy distribution function due to the collisionless heating. These characteristics allow the two-RF-driven dual antenna inductively coupled plasma to accomplish enhanced generation of negative ions and their precursors with a high RF efficiency.