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Argonne researching “climate-ready” nuclear plant design
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have partnered with Washington state–based Energy Northwest to look at alternative ways to cool nuclear reactors as climate change impacts relied-upon water sources.
V. T. Astrelin, A. V. Burdakov, N. G. Karlykhanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 246-248
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A652
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Investigation of mechanism of plasma ions heating in a multimirror magnetic trap became actual due to the essential progress in experiments on GOL-3 facility at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics.The mechanism of fast (in comparison with the Coulomb one) acceleration and heating of ions in a multimirror trap with injection of a powerful relativistic electron beam is discussed.