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DOE announces Genesis Mission request for applications
Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president of hyperscale and HPC computing (left), and Darío Gil, DOE Under Secretary for Science and Genesis Mission lead, at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference. (Photo: Nvidia)
Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Genesis Mission lead Darío Gil participated in a session at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference on March 17 that coincided with the announcement of the DOE’s $293 million Genesis Mission request for applications, which invites interdisciplinary teams to submit ideas for projects addressing over 20 of Genesis’s stated national challenges, several of which focus on accelerating nuclear research and nuclear energy output.
“We seek breakthrough ideas and novel collaborations leveraging the scientific prowess of our national laboratories, the private sector, universities, and science philanthropies,” said Gil.
Wesley B. Downum, George H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 1 | July 1984 | Pages 125-127
Technical Note | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23127
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The injection of heavy ions such as Mg+ or Ca+ into a tokamak such that they are trapped in “fat” banana orbits is proposed as a technique for creation of a radial electric field. Such a field is of interest for improving the confinement of fuel ions relative to the confinement of alpha-particle ash.