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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
Y. Takemura, K. Ishii, M. Yamanashi, N. Kikuno, A. Fueki, K. Tsutsui, M. Shimoo, T. Saito, K. Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 273-276
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963459
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The relation between the radial potential profile of the core plasma are examined in the tandem mirror GAMMA 10. It is observed that the radial potential profiles are convex over the cross section of the plasma column and the high energy end-loss ions over the confinement potential are decreased too in many shots. The radial potential profiles were controlled by changing the electrostatic potential profiles of the separated coaxial end plates. On flattening the radial profiles, the reduction of the high energy end-loss ions was softened and the plasma density increased in the central cell. These results suggest that the flattened radial potential profiles decrease the radial diffusion and improve the confinement of the plasma.