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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.
Atsushi Imasaki, Fumitalce Murakami, Kunihiko Hattori, Tsuyoshi Yagai, Masashi Ashino, Akira Ando, Hiroyuki Tobari, Mikirou Yoshinuma, Masaaki Inutake
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 324-327
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963471
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Macroscopic behavior of a high-beta and supersonic plasma flow is investigated in the HITOP device. It is found that a cylindrical plasma begins to rotate eccentrically around the center axis in a divergent magnetic mirror. The eccentric radius increases with the increase in the mirror ratio and the beta value of the plasma. The rotating frequency changes with the radial electric field in the plasma, which is controlled by end-plate biasing technique. The rotation direction and its velocity are consistent with E × B drift motion. This behavior seems to be a flute/ballooning mode driven by static and dynamic pressure gradient in a bad curvature region of the divergent field line.