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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
Tomoyuki Senba, Satarou Yamaguchi, Shinsaku Imagawa, Nagato Yanagi, Takashi Satow, Jyunya Yamamoto, Osamu Motojima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 571-574
New Trends and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11962966
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In helical experiment devices, the accuracy of their nonplanar coils affects plasma confinement properties significantly, so coil winding accuracy is one of the crucial issues for their construction. An advanced method for helical coil windings in fusion devices was studied. This new method utilizes a geometrical characteristic of the trajectory of the helical coil, which enables us to improve the accuracy of coils, and is thus expected to improve the mechanical, electromagnetic and superconducting properties of the coils. This paper presents the new concept of the winding method and practically shows the results of the R&D for the Large Helical Device (LHD).
