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With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 52-59
Invited Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963826
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Potential confinement of an ICRF-heated high-ion temperature plasma in GAMMA 10 is experimentally studied. The potential confinement was shown from data of one-end plugging and both-end plugging. The waveform of end loss current and an analysis of end loss ion energies have also indicated potential formation and confinement. The central cell line density increases 50% by the potential confinement. Some radial losses were observed in the anchor and/or plug/barrier regions and a rate of the radial loss was measured by using the data from one-end plugging. Under an experimental condition, the radial loss rate was estimated to be about 3%. In order to reduce the radial loss, conducting plates were installed adjacent to the plasma in the anchor transition region. The density increase of 60 % was attained after installation of the conducting plates and a higher density increase can be expected in the near future. The density increase was 50% before installation of the conducting plates. Controllability and reproducibility of the potential confinement are also improved after installation of the conducting plates.