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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 186-189
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1346
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Theory of plasma confinement in a multiple mirror trap is extended. Plasma lifetime is estimated for new regimes with partially devastated loss-cone, which occur at the stage of plasma decay in GOL-3 multiple mirror after termination of relativistic electron beam injection.
