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The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has released its program priorities for calendar year 2024, covering key cleanup actions, project construction, acquisition, and other important activities that will further the office’s mission of addressing the environmental legacy of the nation’s nuclear research and weapons development.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 190-192
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11605
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The mean curvature approach is considered for arbitrary magnetic field vector and magnetic surface. It is shown that the magnetic field module variation along a field line defines the mean curvature of this vector. Magnetic surfaces with constant mean curvature can be optimal for plasma confinement in strait open-ended traps and linked multimirror configurations.
