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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 247-249
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16917
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Non-axisymmetry of the plasmas as well as fluctuations including turbulence causes the radial transport in a mirror configuration. The azimuthal distribution and fluctuations of floating potentials on a segmented limiter in the central cell are measured to evaluate the degree of the axisymmetry of plasmas.
