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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 2 | February 2012 | Pages 104-112
Equilibrium and Instabilities | Proceedings of the Tenth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13497
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A general introduction is given to ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, using linear perturbations of ideal MHD equations. Subsequently the shear Alfvén waves are shown to form a discrete spectrum of Global Alfvén Eigenmodes in current-carrying cylindrical plasmas and Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmodes in toroidal plasmas. A comparison between theory and experiment is presented for the observed discrete spectra of Alfvén waves driven by energetic ions in Joint European Torus. The mechanism of excitation of Alfvén instabilities is described by considering particle-to-wave power transfer, and two main mechanisms of TAE-induced re-distribution and losses of energetic ions are discussed.