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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
David L. Galbraith, Terry Kammash
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 65-72
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29097
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Classical diffusion across magnetic fields driven by density gradients in hot plasmas is a problem that has been considered by many authors because of its application to many areas in plasma physics. In most cases, however, only particle diffusion in one-temperature plasmas has been considered. Even when the interacting species are allowed to have unequal temperatures, the energy diffusion resulting from the density gradients is not calculated. There are disagreements among existing results, even in the case of single-temperature particle diffusion. Expressions for classical particle and energy diffusion across magnetic fields for multitemperature plasmas are derived from basic principles. The results are then compared with those most often quoted in the literature.