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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
B. H. Park, N. S. Yoon, S.S. Kim, J. Y. Kim, M. Kwon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 92-94
Heating | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963571
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Solutions for the RF heating problems in HANBIT mirror machine have been obtained by analytically under the assumptions of uniform plasma and magnetic field [1]. For the case of non-uniform plasma and magnetic field, a numerical calculation for entire region requires considerable computing times and delicate considerations of the antenna current. In this work, we developed a hybrid method in solving the RF heating problem in which the outer region of the plasma limiter including the antenna is treated by an analytic technique and the plasma region is solved by a numerical method. Solutions for two regions are matched on the plasma-vacuum interface self-consistently without loss of generality. Using this method, we can reduce the calculation time and required computer memories and present some results for HANBIT case.