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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
O. A. Lavrent'ev et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 224-227
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A645
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The electromagnetic traps have unique properties favourably distinguishing them from others thermonuclear systems. The application of the combined electrical and magnetic fields allows to solve a problem of plasma stability, to receive close to classical factors of particles and energy cross transfer. Energy recuperation in an electrical field facilitates an exit of reactor on a stationary mode supported at the expense of direct transformation of kinetic energy of -particles in electrical one. Ions oscillation in a radial electrical field of a potential well, them focusing essentially reduces the requirements to a boundary magnetic field, allows to use a less power-intensive magnetic systems.