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Recent surveys confirm high levels of U.S. nuclear support
Surveys have consistently indicated that public support in the United States for the use of nuclear energy has been increasing in recent years. Four recent surveys continue to suggest that near-record-high numbers of Americans support nuclear energy. However, the survey results differ—sometimes widely—in the details of their findings.
Nobuo Mizuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 455-460
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29281
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The thermal stability of a thermonuclear plasma in a mirror reactor is obtained by a simple model The effect of the loss of thermonuclear alpha particles due to collisional pitch-angle scattering into loss cones is included in this analysis. The effect of the collisional loss is significant, and it has a stabilizing effect on the thermal instability.
