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Excelsior University student section awarded community education grant
The American Nuclear Society Student Section at Excelsior University in Albany, N.Y., was awarded a $5,000 grant from the ANS Student Section Strategic Fund initiative for its program, Empowering Tomorrow’s Nuclear Innovators: A Collaborative Approach to Nuclear Technology Education and Awareness.
Masaaki Yamada
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 9 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 38-47
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24699
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A review of experimental spheromak research is presented, together with prospects of near-future experiments and some reactor considerations. In the several experiments based on different schemes, a major effort has recently been made to improve the global magnetohydrodynamic stability and plasma parameters. Electron temperatures sufficiently high to exceed the low-Z radiation barrier have been achieved, and the extensive study of the transport characteristics has begun, aiming to attain more reactor-relevant plasmas with larger current. Finally, an improved conceptual design of a small spheromak reactor is presented, based on a flux injection technique recently developed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.