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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
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A. Kojima et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 306-308
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A672
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A method for the measurement of the radial flux induced by the electrostatic fluctuations was developed by use of gold neutral beam probes (GNBP). Beam probes were useful devices for the measurement of density and the potential fluctuations in core plasma. The drift wave measured by a GNBP was growing with the finite phase difference between the density and the potential fluctuation. It was found that using the GNBP, the measured drift wave caused the density and the potential profile to be relaxed through the radial particle flux. Since the plasma difference of the electrostatic fluctuations would cause the radial flux, the measurement of the phase difference had been one of the key parameter for the radial confinement.