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The U.S. Million Person Study of Low-Dose-Rate Health Effects
There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the health consequences of exposure to radiation received gradually over time. While there is a plethora of studies on the risks of adverse outcomes from both acute and high-dose exposures, including the landmark study of atomic bomb survivors, these are not characteristic of the chronic exposure to low-dose radiation encountered in occupational and public settings. In addition, smaller cohorts have limited numbers leading to reduced statistical power.
K. Yoshikawa, K. Takiyama, K. Masuda, H. Toku, T. Koyama, K. Taruya, H. Hashimoto, A. Nagafuchi, T. Mizutani, Y. Yamamoto, M. Ohnishi, H. Horiike, N. Inoue
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 486-491
Alternate and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963283
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Strongly localized electric fields were measured in the central cathode He plasma core region of an Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion (IECF) device by using the laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) method as well as plasma core diameter to examine their correlations.
It was found that the FWHM of plasma core diameter increases slightly with the increasing ion beam perveance. Comparison of the intensity profile of the plasma core is made with that of the electric quadrupole moment (QDP) component. For the cases of potential profiles with one peak, the peak positions show good correspondence with each other, while the profiles themselves are vastly different to each other.
