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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
D. J. Taylor, F.W. Baity, R. A. Brown, W. E. Bryan, A. Fadnek, D. J. Hoffman, J. F. King, R. L. Livesey, R. L. McIlwain
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1088-1092
Plasma Heating and Current Drive — II | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39837
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As part of the development of ion cyclotron resonant heating (ICRH) of fusion plasmas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has built resonant double loop (RDL) antennas for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, United States) and Tore Supra (Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Cadarache, France). Each antenna has been designed to deliver 4 MW of power. The electrical circuit and the mechanical philosophy employed are the same for both antennas, but different operating environments lead to substantial differences in the designs of specific components. A description and a comparison of the technologies developed in the two designs are presented.