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From Capitol Hill: Nuclear is back, critical for America’s energy future
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy convened its first hearing of the year, “American Energy Dominance: Dawn of the New Nuclear Era,” on January 7, where lawmakers and industry leaders discussed how nuclear energy can help meet surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, advanced manufacturing, and national security needs.
V. D. Shafranov, M. I. Mikhailov, A. A. Skovoroda
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 67-76
Invited Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963828
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The problems of the three-dimensional (3D) plasma confinement systems optimization based on choice of a proper topology of the module B lines on magnetic surface is considered. This approach developed in recent years is connected with the fact that in spite of the 3D structure of the confining magnetic field in the stellarator and mirror with quadrupole stabilizers, an essential properties of the equilibrium and the guiding center drift depend mainly on module B distribution on magnetic surfaces. Selecting the system with the “quasisymmetric” distribution of module B one could to avoid or to make weaker unfavourable effects of the 3-D systems: the island structure and large neoclassical transport. The theoretical base for this approach is discussed.