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Nuclear power plant proximity study sparks controversy
A study published in Nature Communications found a correlation between proximity to nuclear power plants and rates of cancer mortality.
The paper, “National Analysis of Cancer Mortality and Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants in the United States,” said that the study could not establish causation but also said that the researchers’ calculations support evidence of 115,586 “cancer deaths attributable to nuclear power plants proximity.”
Amir Bahadori, nuclear engineering program director at Kansas State University, cautioned that this study should not be read as proof that nuclear power plants cause cancer deaths.
Y. M. Hu, Y. J. Hu, Y. R. Lin-Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 4 | May 2011 | Pages 684-689
Technical Paper | Sixteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC-16) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11734
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A fully relativistic theory of electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) efficiency based on Green's function techniques is considered. Numerical calculations of the current drive efficiency in a uniform magnetic field are performed. The numerical results with parameter regimes relevant to ITER operation are compared with those of two simplified models in which the electron-electron Coulomb collision operator is respectively approximated by its high-velocity limit and a semirelativistic form. Our results indicate that the semirelativistic approximation of the collision operator should be appropriate for modeling the ECCD efficiency under ITER conditions.