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The IAEA targets seafood contaminants and plastic pollution in oceans
Oceans link all the continents of the world, and fish don’t respect boundary lines. So it’s fitting that a global organization—the International Atomic Energy Agency—is helping nations detect and monitor both plastic pollution and biotoxins in marine algae that can lead to outbreaks of contaminated seafood.
M. I. Avramenko, V. A. Burtsev, P. A. Ivanov, N. I. Kazachenko, V. S. Kuznetsov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 440-448
Technical Paper | ICF Driver Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29384
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Electron beam propagation in a dense gas medium is numerically investigated. All the main phenomena that determine electron beam behavior in a gas (scattering and energy losses of the electrons on the gas atom molecules, ionization and excitation, electron thermalization, beam pinching, and influence of a magnetic guide field) are taken into account. The initial beam energy and the gas chamber dimensions are varied in a wide range; typical gas mixtures for the excimer lasers are considered. Graphs are given that allow the choice of the optimal electron beam energy that provides the maximum efficiency of the beam energy deposition into the gas, depending on the gas chamber dimensions.