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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.
Kenichi Kurihara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 548-552
Plasma Engineering (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963670
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Current profile reproduction has been considered one of the key issues for control and evaluation of a tokamak plasma. Although magnetic measurements exterior to a plasma provide the most reliable data necessary for profile reproduction, the reproducibility from the magnetic measurements is unclear, and the regularization against numerical ill posedness improperly restricts reproducible profiles. To solve the inverse problem, at first, a new method is proposed for the current profile reproduction using a function expansion. Second, with the eigenfunctions in this method, a reproducibility check is analytically formulated. Finally, a new constraint for the plasma interior is derived from the MHD equilibrium equation. In the next step, this constraint must be included to enable reliable reproduction of current profile.
