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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 71-73
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A610
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Recent experiments on plasma heating and confinement in a multiple-mirror magnetic device GOL-3 demonstrate substantial improvement in comparison with the previous results obtained in a uniform magnetic field. The observed confinement time, which is of the order of a millisecond, is determined chiefly by the longitudinal losses while the transverse ones seem to be irrelevant. Simple estimates of the latter reveal, however, that the cross-field thermal losses are presently only marginally small and, therefore, may become important in future experiments.