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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.
W. L. Barr, R. H. Bulmer, L. J. Perkins, S. A. Cohen, K. A. Werley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1416-1420
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29920
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We have just completed a comparison of predictions for the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma, from a physics model [1] with the more accurate ones from a two-dimensional fluid code, the B2 code [2]. The results presented here show rather good agreement on values of plasma temperature in the SOL and of divertor heat load, for a rather wide range of Tokamak sizes and parameters. We are therefore confident that this model will provide a suitable divertor module for both the new ITER systems code, SUPERCODE [3], and other applications requiring fast but accurate modelling of edge plasma parameters, at least within the range of the present benchmarks.