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Restart progress and a new task force in Iowa
This week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order to form the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force, the purpose of which will be to “advise her, the General Assembly, and relevant state agencies on the development and advancement of nuclear energy technologies and infrastructure in the state.”
Aleksei Meshcheryakov, Irina Grishina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 8 | November 2025 | Pages 858-868
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2483060
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In many tokamaks, the effect of improving plasma energy confinement after injecting impurities, and accordingly, increasing radiation loss is observed. In this paper, we experimentally study whether this effect is observed at the L-2M stellarator. We ascertained that for the L-2M stellarator, in the range of operating parameters, the energy lifetime does not depend on the radiation loss power. We propose a mechanism for explaining the improvement in energy confinement observed in tokamaks with limiters after injecting light impurities. The safety factor gradient at the plasma edge increases after impurities are injected, as does the shear of poloidal rotation velocity. As a consequence, turbulent flows are suppressed, resulting in an improvement in plasma energy confinement. In stellarators, this mechanism does not work since the angle of rotational transformation is rigidly set by the coils of the facility magnetic system. The plasma confinement in the L-2M is not deteriorated after increasing radiation loss power due to the action of the plasma self-organization processes.