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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
A. V. Arzhannikov, M. A. Makarov, S. L. Sinitsky, V. D. Stepanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 304-306
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11643
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Efficiency of the beam–plasma interaction was investigated for the case of small radial size intense E-beam on the base of the energy spectrum measurements with multifoil analyser. This shows good prospects of such beams for reactor applications.
