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Nuclear News 40 Under 40: The wait is over
Following the enthusiastic response from the nuclear community in 2024 for the inaugural NN 40 Under 40, the Nuclear News team knew we had to take up the difficult task in 2025 of turning it into an annual event—though there was plenty of uncertainty as to how the community would receive a second iteration this year. That uncertainty was unfounded, clearly, as the tight-knit nuclear community embraced the chance to celebrate its up-and-coming generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers who are working to grow the influence of this oft-misunderstood technology.
S. Koike, T. Watanabe, T. Mitsui, T. Takahashi, T. Asai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 377-379
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16960
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Heating effects of translated field-reversed configuration plasma into a chamber where neutral particles are filled is investigated by numerical calculation. Here, neutral particle species of deuterium, helium, and argon atoms are considered and translation speed is over 100 km/s. The calculation results show helium atoms penetrate most deeply into the plasma. Although argon ions that have the largest mass can transfer most their translation energy relative to the FRC plasma, energy recovery rate is found to be low due to the orbit loss.