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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Franco Alladio, Paola Batistoni, Alessandro Mancuso
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 4 | December 1992 | Pages 474-481
Alpha-Particle Special | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30083
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The properties of alpha-particle confinement of l = 2 stellarat ors have been studied as a function of the aspect ratio (3 < R/a < 12). A collisionless orbit calculation has been performed numerically for stellarator configurations obtained by winding the helical currents on circular-cross-section tori with a constant pitch in toroidal coordinates. All the configurations studied exibit pronounced separatrixlike features that also rotate with constant pitch in toroidal coordinates. The fraction of alpha particles contained within the last closed magnetic surface rapidly increases with the aspect ratio and is >80% for R/a > 4. The escaping alpha particles cross the separatrix within narrow helical strips around the X-point path when it is between the inboard and the top of the torus. The particle motion is also followed outside the last closed magnetic surface. When the boundary (i.e., the surface where the helical currents flow) is sufficiently far from the plasma, the escaping alpha particles are found to remain trapped in the X-point region.