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It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
T. Kawaguchi, K. Nishimura, Y. Munakata, H. Takeno, Y. Yasaka, K. Ichimura, Y. Nakashima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 307-309
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16937
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As for charge separation capability of cusp-type direct energy converter (CuspDEC), which is expected to be used in an advanced fusion, high density plasma production has been studied with keeping a collision-less condition of the cusp region. Using a pulsed feeding technique, high density plasma production has been achieved and low gas pressure enough to keep collision-less condition has been evaluated by a simple gas dynamics calculation.