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During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Guido Van Oost
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 391-398
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A505
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The remarkable progress in magnetic fusion research in the past three decades has been obtained by building successively larger devices, more powerful heating systems, and mastering the art of plasma positioning, shaping and profile control and of wall surface treatment and impurity control.
