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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Linda E. Sugiyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | September 1992 | Pages 236-242
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30106
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High-magnetic-field, toroidal deuterium-tritium plasmas can have a “window” of accessibility to lower hybrid radio-frequency heating at moderate frequency. As an example, lower hybrid waves at 8 GHz are shown to penetrate most of the way into subignited and ignited Ignitor plasmas at full density and magnetic field, using a one-dimensional transport and ray-tracing code. Better heating of the plasma interior is obtained by launching from a negative poloidal angle relative to the horizontal midplane.