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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
Kunihito Yamauchi, Kazuki Ogasawara, Masato Watanabe, Akitoshi Okino, Yoshitaka Sunaga, Eiki Hotta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 3 | May 2001 | Pages 1182-1187
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A171
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experimental results of spherical glow discharge for a portable neutron source are presented. An experimental device consisting of a 45-cm-diam, 31-cm-high stainless steel cylindrical chamber was constructed in which a spherical mesh-type 30-cm-diam anode was installed. A spherical grid cathode made of 1.2-mm-diam stainless steel wire was made into a 7-cm-diam open spherical grid. The system was maintained at a constant pressure of 1 to 15 mTorr by feeding hydrogen or deuterium gas. The visible and ultraviolet emissions from the device were measured using the spectroscopic method. Strong emission lines of hydrogen were observed, and all hydrogen lines were broadened, remarkably, by Doppler and/or Stark effects. From these data, beam ion velocity, electron density and temperature of the core plasma were estimated. Using deuterium gas, a steady-state neutron production rate of 104 s-1 was observed at a discharge of 40 kV, 2 mA. In the low-current region of several milliamperes, the neutron production rate was proportional to the discharge current to the power from ~1.1 to 1.4. The beam-background reactions were dominant in the measured range of voltage and current.
