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Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding
A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to universities for the indirect costs of research under DOE grants. The group filed suit Monday, April 14, challenging a what it termed a “flagrantly unlawful action” that could “devastate scientific research at America’s universities.”
By Wednesday, the U.S. District Court judge hearing the case issued a temporary restraining order effective nationwide, preventing the DOE from implementing the policy or terminating any existing grants.
Rikizo Hatakeyama, Toshiro Kaneko, Noriyoshi Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 325-329
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963877
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A plasma potential formation is investigated in a fully ionized collisionless plasma flow in the presence of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating (ECRH) under simple diverging magnetic-field configurations. When ECR takes place in a diverging region, there appears a strong potential drop along the field lines, which results from a field-aligned electron acceleration, being accompanied by an effective ion acceleration so as to maintain the charge neutrality condition in the downstream region. Time-resolved measurements are performed in order to clarify dynamics of the potential formation.
