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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Doo-Hee Chang, Tae-Seong Kim, Min Park, Bong-Ki Jung, Seung Ho Jeong, Kwang Won Lee, Sang Ryul In, Atsushi Kojima, Mieko Kashiwagi, Masaya Hanada, Young-Soon Bae, Jong-Gu Kwak
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 2 | August 2017 | Pages 157-161
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1319719
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Long-pulse operation has been initially and successfully demonstrated during a 100-s stable beam extraction in the neutral beam test stand (NBTS) system of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) for the positive ion source (IS) of the JT-60SA neutral beam injector. The NBTS system was constructed at KAERI to develop 300-s deuterium beam extractions of 100 kV/50 A as an auxiliary heating system of the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR). The IS of the JT-60SA neutral beam injector is composed of a plasma generator and a set of tetrode accelerators. The beamline components include an optical multichannel analyzer duct, a neutralizer, a bending magnet (BM), a calorimeter, and a vacuum pump system. The beam power deposition of the IS and the beamline components along the NBTS have been measured by water flow calorimetry (WFC), and a total of 99.7% of the extracted beam power (Vacc∙Iacc) was counted for a hydrogen beam of 82 kV/25 A (2.05 MW) during 100-s beam extraction. To reduce the localized heat load on the calorimeter plate, a method of small-angle deflection for the ion beam particles was applied using a small alternate current of 8 A, 0.5 Hz for the BM coil.