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General Atomics marks completion of ITER’s superconducting fusion magnet
General Atomics last week celebrated the completion of the central solenoid modules for the ITER reactor being built in southern France. Designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power, the ITER tokamak will be the world’s largest experimental fusion facility.
C. O. Thomas, Jr., S. H. Hanauer, N. P. Baumann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 51 | Number 3 | July 1973 | Pages 253-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A26603
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Experiments were performed on a large nuclear reactor to investigate the effects of detector placement and reflection on neutron noise spectra and space dependence of detector efficiency. The magnitudes, break frequencies, and rolloff slopes of the spectra were found to be affected by both detector placement and reflection. The space dependence of detector efficiency was found to be proportional to that of average detector count rates.