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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 312-314
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A674
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A formula for the plasma pressure as a functional of the diamagnetic loop voltage is derived for a general case when the time for the magnetic flux to percolate through conducting wall of vacuum chamber is not small as compared to the plasma confinement time. An arbitrary shape of the conducting chamber and the plasma column are allowed in contrast to earlier theories based on axial symmetry of the system.
