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PPPL study points to better fusion plasma control
The combination of two previously known methods for managing plasma conditions can result in enhanced control of plasma in a fusion reactor, according to a simulation performed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
A. P. Vasiliev, Yu. A. Sokolov, V. A. Terekhin, Yu. I. Chernukhin, A. V. Lukin, A. I. Saukov, B. I. Sukhanov, A. M. Ryabinin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 145 | Number 2 | October 2003 | Pages 188-195
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2375
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper describes test facilities used by the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF) to perform benchmark experiments essential for the verification of nuclear data libraries. The key experiments discussed in the paper include critical mass measurements; the investigation of reaction rate distribution in critical and subcritical systems, in particular those with a 14-MeV neutron source; and studies on the spectra of neutrons and gamma quanta emitted from spheres and reflected by hemispheres with a central pulse source of 14-MeV neutrons. New experiments are proposed with a view to revising nuclear data essential for new nuclear developments.