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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.
Toshihide Ogawa, Mikio Saigusa, Hisato Kawashima, Sadayoshi Kanazawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 305-308
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963467
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A back Faraday shield is proposed for improving a cooling design of Faraday shield and better antenna-plasma coupling of a fast wave antenna. The radiofrequency properties of an antenna with the back Faraday shield have been investigated in the JFT-2M tokamak. The loading resistance of the antenna was significantly higher than that of an antenna using a conventional Faraday shield. The back Faraday shield antenna did not show adverse results for launching fast waves up to 550 kW of coupled power. The electron heating was observed by a soft X ray spectrum measurement increased by 0.35 keV during 250 kW of fast wave application.
