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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
E. Mazzucato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 7 | October 2020 | Pages 807-813
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1795972
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper describes a fusion reactor scheme consisting of two 200-m-long magnetic mirrors with a ratio of two connected by semicircular sections to form a racetrack configuration. The two most serious problems of magnetic mirrors, magnetohydrodynamic stability and end losses, are solved by minimizing the negative curvature of the mirror magnetic field lines and using helical windings in the curved sections to add a positive curvature and strong shear to the magnetic field lines at and beyond the mirror throat and for confining the mirror end losses. The reactor should be capable of producing at least 13 GW of fusion power when operating in deuterium-tritium at the same plasma density and temperature as ITER.