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NRC cancels advanced reactor meeting due to government shutdown
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it is cancelling an upcoming advanced reactor stakeholder meeting, originally scheduled for November 19, due to the government shutdown and the limitations on staffing at the agency.
Toshihide Ogawa, Mikio Saigusa, Hisato Kawashima, Sadayoshi Kanazawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 305-308
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963467
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A back Faraday shield is proposed for improving a cooling design of Faraday shield and better antenna-plasma coupling of a fast wave antenna. The radiofrequency properties of an antenna with the back Faraday shield have been investigated in the JFT-2M tokamak. The loading resistance of the antenna was significantly higher than that of an antenna using a conventional Faraday shield. The back Faraday shield antenna did not show adverse results for launching fast waves up to 550 kW of coupled power. The electron heating was observed by a soft X ray spectrum measurement increased by 0.35 keV during 250 kW of fast wave application.
