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Disney World should have gone nuclear
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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The helical force-free equation, ∇ × B = αB, has been solved analytically in a toroidal coordinates system for a torus of arbitrary aspect ratio without the approximation of a large aspect ratio. The three-dimensional force-free equation is reduced to a scalar Helmholtz equation. A set of analytical solutions for the Helmholtz equation in the torus is presented. With these solutions, the eigenvalues have been obtained for an aspect ratio R/a ≥ 7.5 and toroidal mode number −5 ≤ n ≤ 14. The difference in the eigenvalue between a torus and a cylinder becomes large in the case of a small aspect ratio and a large toroidal mode number. However, the smallest eigenvalues and the corresponding toroidal wave numbers are found to be in close agreement with those of a cylinder for R/a ≥ 1.5.