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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Yutaka Matsumoto, Tatsuhiko Nagaura, Tsuguhiro Watanabe, Shun-Ichi Oikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 309-315
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963468
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Detailed stracture of the magnetic field in the Large Helical Deveice (LHD) is studied numerically. The connection length of the divertor field line is found to be the order of several km or more. The possibility of the mirror-confined plasma in the chaotic field line region is shown. The divertor plasma model is proposed based on the long connection length and the existence of the mirror-confined plasma in the chaotic field line region. A new ICRF heating scheme (runaway ion heating scheme) for LHD is also proposed based on the existence of the mirror-confined plasma in the core plasma region.