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State legislation: Delaware delving into nuclear energy possibilities
A bill that would create a nuclear energy task force in Delaware has passed the state Senate and is now being considered in the House of Representatives.
Hiroto Matsuura, Suguru Masuzaki, Shoichi Okamura (19P56)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 364-366
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1403
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In devices such as Stellarator/Heliotron, nested magnetic surfaces are surrounded by the so-called separatrix layer, which consists of open field lines with various connection length to the vacuum chamber wall and/or divertor plates. In this paper, we study the strike point distribution of field lines on Compact Helical System chamber wall, especially under divertor configuration. Then, by using these distribution as the measure of neutral recycling source, Monte Carlo simulation of 3-D neutral transport is done. The results are compared with those obtained for different magnetic configuration.