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NextGen MURR to partner with Burns & McDonnell
The University of Missouri has entered a consulting agreement with construction firm Burns & McDonnell to develop NextGen MURR, a new 20-MW light water research reactor that will produce medical isotopes for cancer treatments and theranostics and will be used to conduct neutron science research.
Satoru Yoshimura, Satoshi Sugimoto, Shigefumi Okada (19P60)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 376-378
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1407
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A measurement system for the investigation of the translation of the field reversed configuration (FRC) plasma using computer tomography (CT) data at two different cross-sections was established. Two sets of CT devices were installed at the upstream and downstream sides of the confinement chamber of the FIX machine. Each CT device was composed of three arrays of detectors sensitive to the near-infrared radiation. The Fourier-Bessel expansion technique was employed to reconstruct the two-dimensional distributions of the light emissivity of the FRC plasma. After the completion of the translation, the intensity of emission decreased significantly, probably because the density and the temperature of the plasma were decreased due to the plasma expansion induced by the translation.