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More than half of material thefts reported to IAEA occurred during transport
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that more than half of all thefts of nuclear and other radioactive material reported to the agency’s Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB) since 1993 occurred during authorized transport, with the share rising to nearly 70 percent in the past decade. The ITDB covers incidents involving nuclear material, radioisotopes, and radioactively contaminated material.
B. A. Carreras, N. Dominguez, V. E. Lynch, N. T. Besedin, I. M. Pankratov, A. A. Shishkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 1 | January 1993 | Pages 71-78
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30121
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A more accurate model of the helical coils has changed previous stability results, which were obtained with a model that used only three filaments for each half-coil. With the improved model, Mercier stability is obtained for parabolic pressure profiles at peak beta values of up to 3% for the standard configuration, which now has an average minor radius ā = 23.3 cm. For a configuration with a smaller plasma radius, ā = 15.2 cm, the maximum peak beta, 5.0%, is limited by equilibrium. The addition of a toroidal field reduces the rotational transform to <0.5. This configuration has access to the second stability regime for Mercier modes when narrow pressure profiles are used at low beta.