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The last days of Hallam
The Hallam nuclear power plant, about 25 miles southwest of Lincoln, Neb., was an important part of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Reactor Power Demonstration Program. But in the end, it operated for only 6,271 hours and generated about 192.5 million kilowatt-hours of electric power during its short, 15-month life.
A. D. Beklemishev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 355-357
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16953
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A new type of axial pumping or confining system for plasma devices is proposed. It is based on E × B plasma rotation in a nonuniform helical magnetic field. In the rotating reference frame the helical ripples of the magnetic field look like traveling waves propagating along the system axis. Due to parallel plasma viscosity and/or collisions with locally trapped particles, the plasma as a whole will aquire axial momentum. Related processes are observed in tokamaks as transformations between poloidal and toroidal rotation components.