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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
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Masami Ohnishi, Shoichi Ohi, Masao Okamoto, Hiromu Momota, Jiro Wakabayashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 2 | September 1987 | Pages 249-256
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A11963783
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A self-ignition of a deuterium-deuterium (D-D)-3He fuel field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma by fusion product heating is studied by using the point plasma model, where an FRC plasma equilibrium is taken into account. It is numerically demonstrated that the D-D-3He plasma can be evolved from a deuterium-tritium burning plasma in a controlled manner by means of a compression-decompression control as well as a fueling control. It is also indicated that the increase of a trapped flux is effective for suppressing the excessive elongation of a plasma during the transition. The proposed method may provide a solution to the problem on plasma heating to attain a D-D-3He self-ignition.