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The 2025 ANS election results are in!
Spring marks the passing of the torch for American Nuclear Society leadership. During this election cycle, ANS members voted for the newest vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and six board of director positions (four U.S., one non-U.S., one student). New professional division leadership was also decided on in this election, which opened February 25 and closed April 15. About 21 percent of eligible members of the Society voted—a similar turnout to last year.
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.
