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Playing the “bad guy” to enhance next-generation safety
Sometimes, cops and robbers is more than just a kid’s game. At the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, researchers are channeling their inner saboteurs to discover vulnerabilities in next-generation nuclear reactors, making sure that they’re as safe as possible before they’re even constructed.
Kai Masuda, Yu Yamagaki, Taiju Kajiwara, John Kipritidis
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 625-629
Alternate Concepts & Magnets | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12453
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Design of a multistage feedthrough is presented, which aims to enhance fusion reaction rate in a low-pressure spherical inertial electrostatic confinement device. Numerical simulation suggested significant improvement in ion recirculation current by a factor of ~3, by modifying spherical symmetry of electric field.
