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On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
Shen Gao, Jin-Ke Zhang, Xin-Ting Tang, Kang Chen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 8 | November 2024 | Pages 1045-1054
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2294397
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This article establishes a physical model of the interaction between a surface electron beam and the plasma with a transverse magnetic field. The dispersion relation of the beam-plasma interaction is derived by using the field matching method. The effects of magnetic field, electron beam electron density, and plasma density on the radiation frequency and z-direction wave vector are studied. The results indicate that the stronger the transverse magnetic field is, the higher is the cutoff frequency of plasma radiation. The higher the plasma density or electron beam electron density is, the higher are the corresponding radiation frequency and radiation wave number.