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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.
R. J. Colchin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 29 | Number 3 | May 1996 | Pages 365-371
Technical Paper | Magnet System | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A30722
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START, a low-aspect-ratio tokamak located at Culham Laboratory in England, has a central copper rod that carries the whole of the toroidal field current. A small ohmic heating (OH) solenoid is wound around this central rod. The OH-driven currents in the solenoid are opposed by eddy currents in the copper rod, decreasing the volt-seconds available to drive plasma current. These eddy currents were measured and were modeled by a Laplace-transformed cylindrical heat equation. Slots in the central rod inhibit the eddy currents, increasing the effective poloidal resistance of the rod.
