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This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
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.