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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
J. Pratt, H. L. Berk, W. Horton
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | February 2009 | Pages 25-29
Technical Paper | Seventh International Conference on Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A6978
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In recent years, breakthroughs in the GAMMA-10 tandem mirror device and new designs such as the Kinetically Stabilized Tandem Mirror have renewed enthusiasm for investigation of mirror plasmas. With a discrete eigenmode solver and shooting code we calculate kinetic Alfvén waves in a model GAMMA-10 experiment, and then examine the nature of the spectral gaps. We validate the results of these calculations by comparing with magnetic probe signals recorded in the LAPD as a function of frequency of the antenna and the axial position.
