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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Yuri P. Zakharov, Arnold G. Ponomarenko, Alexandr V. Melekhov, Vitali G. Posukh, Ildar F. Shaikhislamov, Hideki Nakashima, Yoshihiko Nagamine
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 283-287
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963868
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The processes of the direct energy conversions of the ICF-microexplosion in magnetic fields are discussed and investigated by both the methods of their simulations in the experiments with usual Laser-Produced Plasma Clouds and via their numerical PIC-modelling in 3D-schemes. The problems of additional energy losses of exploding plasmas which could prevent to achieve more than 50% efficiency of such electrical conversion in uniform magnetic field are studied by comparison of experimental and numerical data. The opportunities of such common approach to simulation future NIF experiment with dipole field's thrust are shown.