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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Hiroo Nakamura, Kenji Tobita, Toshio Hirayama, Yoshihiko Koide, Takashi Arai, Masaaki Kuriyama, Hirotaka Kubo, Yoshinori Kusama, Tatsuo Sugie, Masayoshi Sugihara, Tomonori Takizuka, Keiji Tani, Shin Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 578-582
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29249
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Helium ash exhaust characteristics have been studied in the JT-60 lower divertor with ohmic heating (OH) and neutral beam heating (NBH) of PNB ≦ 18 MW and Ip = 1 MA. Helium fueling was done by gas puff. The divertor neutral pressures of hydrogen (H2) and helium were measured by a residual gas mass analyzer. The helium enrichment in the divertor was also measured. In OH discharges with helium gas puff, no buildup of helium neutral pressure was observed and helium was depleted. On the other hand, in NBH discharges with helium gas puff although enrichment of helium is not observed, the neutral pressures of H2 and helium increase in proportion to . The density dependence of the helium neutral pressures in NBH discharges is promising for efficient helium ash exhaust in fusion reactors.