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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.
B.W.McQuillan, M. Takagi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 209-213
Technical Paper | Fourteenth Target Fabrication Specialists' Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST41-209
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Plastic spherical shells made by microencapsulation show a surface roughness over modes within the range 7–20, generically termed “the mode 10 problem.” The roughness mode number corresponds with theoretical models of Marangoni convection cells formed during the curing of the initial wet shells. The roughness is removed, by appropriate changes in shell processing conditions, changes guided by the understanding of Marangoni convection.
