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Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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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.
Andrey A. Kabantsev, Vladimir G. Sokolov, Sergey Yu. Taskaev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 417-421
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963897
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Target plasma behavior in a mirror when heated by neutral beams was studied. Considerable changes of target plasma density depending on target quality were found. Neutral beam injection resulted in a considerable decrease of target plasma density for the case of dense subsonic jet being a target. For another case (collisionless target plasma) the neutral beam injection led to increase of target plasma density.
In this paper experimental results, simulations and explanations are given.
