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During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
V.T. Astrelin, A.V. Arzhannikov, E.V. Bobukh, A.V. Burdakov, I.A. Ivanov, V.S. Koidan, K.I. Mekler, P.I. Melnikov, S.V. Polosatkin, V.V. Postupaev, A.F. Rovenskikh, S.L. Sinitskiy, A.Yu. Zabolotsky, N.G. Karlykhanov, V.A. Lykov, V.G. Nikolaev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 384-388
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963890
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New approach to a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) source based on mirror-confined plasma is presented. A plasma cloud with ne=1016−1017 cm−3 and Te=10–50 eV serves as an active medium. Such plasma can be obtained in GOL-3 facility by means of two-stage heating by relativistic electron beam. Current experiments on GOL-3-II facility are described. Results of recent study of VUV flush from hydrogen and nitrogen plasma with calculations of ionisation balance and radiation power are presented. Transitions in Li-like ions for recombination scheme and in Ne-like ions for collision excitation scheme are considered as a candidates for coherent VUV generation. Prospects of population inversion and gain achievement are discussed.
