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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
X. Z. Li, C. Ren, P. Jiang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1313-1316
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29523
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In a recent effort to produce fissile material in the blanket of a fusion-fission hybrid reactor.1,2 it is expected that the wave heating might enhance the fusion reaction rate by a factor of 5 in the experimental reactor and by a factor of 2 in the demonstration reactor. Therefore, Fokker Planck equation with ICRH has been solved to obtain the non-maxwellian distribution function for deuterons. It is pointed that Krapchev's paper3might lead to an overoptimistic result due to the improper reaction cross-section formula which is supposed to be applied only for low energy cases. Using the correct cross-section formula4, the calculations show that it is necessary to invoke other kind of non-maxwellian distribution function. Nonequipotential magnetic surfaces5in H-mode may cause such non-maxwellian distribution function.
