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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
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.