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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.
D. P. Stotler
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | September 1992 | Pages 199-207
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30103
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Previously developed procedures that simulate the radiatively induced tokamak density limit are used to examine the scaling of the density limit in more detail. The maximum allowable density increases with auxiliary power and decreases with impurity concentration. However, there is little dependence of the density limit on plasma elongation. These trends are consistent with experimental results. Previous work used coronal equilibrium impurities; the primary result was that the maximum density increases with current when peaked profiles are assumed. Here, this behavior is shown to occur with a coronal nonequilibrium impurity as well.