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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
O. A. Lavrent'ev et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 224-227
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A645
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The electromagnetic traps have unique properties favourably distinguishing them from others thermonuclear systems. The application of the combined electrical and magnetic fields allows to solve a problem of plasma stability, to receive close to classical factors of particles and energy cross transfer. Energy recuperation in an electrical field facilitates an exit of reactor on a stationary mode supported at the expense of direct transformation of kinetic energy of -particles in electrical one. Ions oscillation in a radial electrical field of a potential well, them focusing essentially reduces the requirements to a boundary magnetic field, allows to use a less power-intensive magnetic systems.