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Two updated standards on criticality safety published
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved two new American Nuclear Society standards covering different aspects of nuclear criticality safety (NCS).
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 57 | Number 2 | February 2010 | Pages 156-163
Equilibrium and Instabilities | Proceedings of the Ninth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A9406
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Instabilities of Alfvén Eigenmodes (AEs) are often excited by a super-Alfvénic population of fast ions accelerated with ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) or produced by neutral beam injection (NBI) in present-day tokamaks. In view of the next-step burning plasma experiments with super-Alfvénic alpha-particles, the experimental data on AE instabilities is reviewed for large volume JET tokamak, high magnetic field C-MOD tokamak, and high-beta START and MAST tokamaks. The main types of AE instabilities are described and compared to theory.
