ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Aug 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
September 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
August 2026
Latest News
NRC issues draft EA/FONSI for Duane Arnold restart
Efforts by NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant as early as 2029 continue to move forward with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's preliminary environmental assessment and determination that the restart would have no significant environmental impacts.
On Thursday, the NRC posted a draft environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact for the Palo, Iowa, facility; the Federal Register notice was published on Monday. The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing is a cooperating agency on the draft EA, as the DOE is considering providing financial assistance to the restart project.
H. Takeno, N. Sotani, Y. Munakata, Y. Yasaka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 205-207
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11610
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Concerning an application of a cusp type direct energy converter (CUSPDEC) to high density plasma, subjects on charge separation and deceleration have been experimentally investigated, assuming that previously proposed two-stage deceleration scheme will be employed. As a fundamental measurements on two-stage deceleration scheme, the ions reflected by electric field due to the point cusp ion collector have been successfully detected by a sub-collector as a function of the collector voltage. For efficient charge separation and energy conversion, an introduction of a negatively biased grid has been examined, resulting that the assistance of charge separation to cusp field is effective. By employing the negatively biased grid, direct energy conversion by the point cusp collector also achieved with excluding electrons flowing into the collector.