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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
P. A. Bagryansky, E. D. Gospodchikov, Yu. V. Kovalenko, A. A. Lizunov, V. V. Maximov, S. V. Murakhtin, E. I. Pinzhenin, V. V. Prikhodko, V. Ya. Savkin, A. G. Shalashov, E. I. Soldatkina, A. L. Solomakhin, D. V. Yakovlev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 87-91
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-864
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A system for electron cyclotron resonance plasma heating (ECRH) has been recently installed at the GDT (Gas Dynamic Trap) facility at Budker Institute. The system is based on two 5.5-mm gyrotrons and is designed to deliver two microwave beams with total power of 700 kW and X-mode polarization that are absorbed at the fundamental cyclotron harmonic. A significant increase of basic plasma parameters (energy content, electron temperature, neutron flux) during the injection of microwave radiation has been registered. In particular, the on-axis electron temperature was increased from 200 eV to 600 eV in several shots with ECRH, which establishes a new record for this class of magnetic installation.