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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Laila El-Guebaly, Charles W. Maynard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 101-108
Deep Penetration: Problem and Method of Solution | Special Section Contents / Sheilding | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23083
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The procedure used in setting the first wall and shield of the end cell of the TASKA tandem mirror test facility is presented. This is followed by calculations to provide radiation sources at the neutral beam injector (NBI) penetrations. Representative NBIs are modeled and radiation problems analyzed.
