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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
Masanori Araki, Yoshihiro Ohara, Yoshikazu Okumura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 555-565
Technical Paper | Beam Direct Conversion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29191
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A beam energy recovery system for future neutral beam injectors based on negative ions has been designed. Residual negative ions are recovered electrically, while residual positive ions are decelerated on a soft-landing beam dump. This design simplifies the beam energy recovery power supply system and reduces the heat flux on the beam dump. Residual ions are separated into negative and positive ions by the stray magnetic field from the Fusion Engineering Reactor (FER), the next Japanese tokamak reactor. Each ion beam is also guided to the collector electrode and the soft-landing beam dump by the stray magnetic field. In the 500-keV/20-MW injector designed for FER, the total power efficiency can be improved from 46 to 59% by recovering the negative ions.
