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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.
Yuuji Okamoto, Masayuki Yoshikawa, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Chikara Watabe, Eiichirou Kawamori, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Takatoshi Furukawa, Teruo Tamano, Kiyoshi Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 293-296
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963464
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Measurements of spectra in the wavelength range from vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to soft X-ray are important means to diagnose impurities in magnetically confined plasmas used in fusion plasmas such as a GAMMA 10 plasma. Recently, a space- and time-resolving flat-field grazing-incidence VUV spectrograph was constructed for the simultaneous observation of spatial, temporal and spectral distributions of plasma radiation in the wavelength range of 150-1050 Å. Absolute calibration experiments of the space- and time-resolving VUV spectrograph in the wavelength range of 450-1050 Å were performed for the first time under both S and P polarized light conditions at beamline 11C in the Photon Factory at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. Thus, we can obtain radial profiles of the absolute emissions from the impurities by using Abel inversion, and estimate the density of impurity ions such as oxygen, carbon and so on. From the total impurity ion densities, we can estimate Zeff. During the formation of plug potential by ECRH, the highly-ionized impurities increased as a result of rising of electron temperature. The Zeff with plug potential is larger than that without plug potential.