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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Koji Yamanaka, Satoru Yoshimura, Shinichi Yamamoto, Shigefumi Okada, Seiichi Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 370-383
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963483
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An experiment of Alfvén wave excitation and heating of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma is presented. A low frequency magnetic pulse is applied to the FRC plasma by an azimuthally symmetrical antenna. After the pulse applied, an obvious increase of the plasma energy and the propagation of the magnetic wave are simultaneously observed. The excited wave propagates along the steady magnetic field line with the radially distributed phase velocity. The phase velocity outside the separatrix agrees the dispersion relation of the shear Alfvén wave. On the other hand, it is close to the acoustic speed, inside the separatrix. It is also observed that there is a generation of a non-oscillating toroidal magnetic field, which is possible to cause the heating of the FRC plasma.