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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.
T. Kunugi, M. Akiba, M. Ogawa, O. Sato, M. Nakamura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1868-1872
Plasma-Facing Component | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29991
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The electron-gamma shower code EGS4 was applied to the simulation of energy deposition from runaway electrons in the plasma facing components of tokamaks. We calculated the energy deposition in the layers of carbon and molybdenum irradiated by electrons which energies were from 10 to 300MeV and the incident angles were from 0.5 to 25 degrees. The energy depositions calculated by EGS4 were compared to the results of GEANT3. EGS4 calculated higher total energy deposition rate in both carbon and molybdenum layers, and lower peak energy at the surface of molybdenum layer. EGS4 was also applied to the calculations of the energy depositions on three types of proposed ITER divertor targets. The results of these calculations showed that the peak deposited energies on metallic components were not affected by their geometrical shapes in case of low incident angle.