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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 347-349
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963477
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Energetic particle effects on MHD stability of a tandem mirror plasma is studied theoretically. An algebraic dispersion equation with respect to eigenfrequency is derived from a radial eigenmode equation for flute-mode perturbations with an appropriate boundary condition, in which the effects of energetically drifting ions are taken into account. The dispersion equation describes interactions between curvature-driven interchange modes and drift modes driven by energetically drifting ions. In the absence of wave-particle interactions for energetically drifting ions, the dispersion equation is solved numerically, and a stable region formed due to the charge uncovering effects of energetically drifting ions is shown in a parameter space related with the number density and magnetic drift frequency of energetically drifting ions.