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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
E. Mazzucato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 3 | April 2019 | Pages 197-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1448202
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Based on the assumption that the cross-field transport of energy in low-β cylindrical plasmas imbedded in an axial magnetic field is lower than in tokamaks, a fusion reactor scheme is proposed consisting of long straight plasmas connected by short curved sections. It should be capable of producing 13 GW of fusion power when operating in deuterium-tritium at the same plasma density, temperature, and magnetic field of ITER with only a minor improvement in the plasma confinement of the straight sections.