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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Lee M. Hively
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 438-446
Technical Paper | Alpha-Particle Workshop / Alpha Workshop | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25121
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The present status of modeling toroidal field (TF) ripple loss of fast alphas from tokamaks is summarized. The modeling issues are discussed, and several new aspects of this problem are described, including gyromotion, radial electric field, and sawtoothing. Existing models predict that TF ripple loss of fast alphas will have a low to moderate impact on the design of a tokamak engineering test reactor.
