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UNC, GE agree to clean up former New Mexico uranium mine
The United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) and General Electric Company will undertake a nearly $63 million, decade-long cleanup project at the former Northeast Church Rock Mine in northwestern New Mexico under a consent decree with the United States, the Navajo Nation, and the state of New Mexico.
Tomonori Takizuka, Masanari Hosokawa, Katsuhiro Shimizu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 111-118
Topical Review Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963422
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Particle simulation of open-field plasmas in magnetic confinement systems is required to validate various physics models introduced to fluid simulations. An advanced particle simulation code PARASOL was developed, in which a binary collision model is incorporated to an electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) method. The simulation model is described in detail. Boundary conditions at the sheath entrance obtained by PARASOL simulations are shown. Effects of E×B drift, diffusive loss, and radiative cooling are studied. Heat transport along magnetic field is also investigated.