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Over before it’s begun?
Josh Freed
On top of the many celebrations planned for America’s 250th birthday, the Trump administration wants to mark a nuclear milestone as well: achieving criticality for at least three advanced reactor concepts by July 4, 2026.
But this wouldn’t really be a milestone. On a day of fireworks nationwide, it would just be more noise.
Third Way has celebrated the nuclear sector’s progress during the Trump administration and supported the goal of 400 GW of nuclear energy by 2050. Additionally, we think all five commissioners on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have prioritized safety in new designs and defended an understaffed agency under pressure to bypass important processes.
Yuji Nakamura, N. Nakajima, K. Y. Watanabe, M. Yokoyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 281-286
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1247
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Effects of the bumpy field component on the bootstrap current in the low-collisionality regime are discussed for L = 1 helical plasmas. It is usually considered that the bumpy field component or toroidal mirror ratio suppresses the bootstrap current in helical plasmas since it is a symmetry-breaking component. In the Heliotron J device, however, it has been observed that the direction of the bootstrap current can be changed according to the magnitude of the bumpy field component. In this study, we calculate the bootstrap current in the low-collisionality regime using a model magnetic field spectrum and discuss the condition under which the reversal of the bootstrap current direction occurs.