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During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 289-291
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16931
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The results of preliminary experiments with relatively low power electron beam interacting with plasma in GDT device are discussed. The beam was injected into the device through one of the end mirrors. In the experiments, the problems related to the beam transport through the magnetic mirror were addressed.