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Geological work begins on Poland’s first nuclear plant
Project management firm Bechtel started site geological surveys for Poland’s first nuclear power plant project, the company announced on Wednesday.
Bechtel will conduct in-depth geological surveys at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in the Pomeranian municipality of Choczewo, in northern Poland. This is a key milestone for the country’s entry into nuclear power production, as the surveys will inform the suitability of the planned site.
R. Hatakeyama, T. Kaneko
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 208-212
Stability | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963595
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The two plasma sources using a concentrically three-segmented plasma emitter are developed, with which the parallel and perpendicular flow shears can be controlled, respectively. Here the drift-like and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities are observed to be excited and suppressed depending on the parallel and perpendicular flow shears, respectively. On the other hand, propagation and absorption of right-hand (R) and left-hand (L) circularly polarized waves, which are related to plasma heating, are investigated under magnetic-mirror configurations. Not only R wave but also L wave is absorbed in the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) region in the same way, which is considered to be caused by the polarization reversal from the L wave to the R wave. It is actually observed that the L wave is converted into the R wave near the ECR point depending on the electron temperature.