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FST publishes special issue on fusion’s early history
The July 2024 issue of Nuclear News focused on fusion. Editor-in-chief Rick Michal highlighted in his column (p. 4) Los Alamos National Laboratory’s open access special issue of the American Nuclear Society journal Fusion Science and Technology, titled The Early History of Fusion. This article provides a brief summary of the issue—and we encourage readers to explore all of the full papers.a
J. W. Yang, Y. P. Zhang, Q. L. Yuan, X. Y. Song, X. Li, Q. W. Yang, M. Liao, C. W. Luo, L. Y. Chen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 57 | Number 2 | February 2010 | Pages 176-182
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A9371
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Two silicon drift detectors combine with the new and nonconventional software pulse-height analyzer (SPHA) to measure the time evolution of soft-X-ray spectra, the thermal electron and superthermal electron temperatures. The high-quality soft-X-ray spectral distributions are easily obtained by the new SPHA. Therefore, the measurement accuracies and the time resolutions of thermal electron and superthermal electron temperatures are also improved. The enhancement phenomenon of superthermal electron avalanche during electron cyclotron resonance heating and the pronounced change for the time evolution of soft-X-ray spectra during supersonic molecular beam injection are observed by this system.
