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Fusion energy: Progress, partnerships, and the path to deployment
Over the past decade, fusion energy has moved decisively from scientific aspiration toward a credible pathway to a new energy technology. Thanks to long-term federal support, we have significantly advanced our fundamental understanding of plasma physics—the behavior of the superheated gases at the heart of fusion devices. This knowledge will enable the creation and control of fusion fuel under conditions required for future power plants. Our progress is exemplified by breakthroughs at the National Ignition Facility and the Joint European Torus.
Masaharu Seki, Shun-Ichi Himeno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 3 | May 1997 | Pages 333-337
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30836
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A new technique, Abel inversion for toroidal coordinates, is presented for calculating spatial distributions of an axisymmetric toroidal plasma density from observation beam incidents in the toroidal y direction. In this numerical method, inversion matrix elements are calculated analytically, and their usefulness is examined by using a hypothetical data set of beam intensity with asymmetry for the normal direction to the direction of observation, which results in a valid local plasma density. The asymmetrical character associates with fundamental fixed length dfor the toroidal coordinates.