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Zaporizhzhia ‘extremely fragile’ relying on single off-site power line, IAEA warns
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has just one remaining power line for essential nuclear safety and security functions, compared with its original 10 functional lines before the military conflict with Russia, warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Yasuhito Kiwamoto, Kiyokazu Ito, Akio Sanpei, Akihiro Mohri
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 119-126
Topical Review Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963423
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We study dynamics of discrete vortex strings interacting in a background vorticity distribution by using a magnetized electron plasma confined by a potential distribution in a cylindrical trap, and demonstrate relevant 2-dimensional features characterizing the incompressible dissipation-free guiding-center fluid. Some specific elementary processes are examined and compared with a recently proposed theoretical model that describes a motion of a point vortex moving up a hill of background vorticity distribution. Radial transport of particles is observed to be very limited and associated with several conserved parameters.