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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
R. Abbott, S. Pemberton, P.F. Peterson, G.-P. Sun, P. Wright, R. Holmes, J. Latkowski, R. Moir, K. Springer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 732-738
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963326
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Thick-liquid pockets have the potential to protect structural materials and increase power density in heavy-ion fusion chambers. Here we show that cylindrical liquid jets have interesting advantages for creating shielding grids for heavy-ion beam lines. A cylindrical nozzle design with a very low convergence ratio was developed, and the fabrication methods needed for inexpensive numerically-controlled machining of large nozzle arrays demonstrated. Cylindrical jets were studied because they give the highest surface smoothness for a given degree of turbulence suppression, allow flow control to individual nozzles for control of jet pointing, and attenuate target-induced shocks effectively. Improved control of the grid geometry allows the driver energy to be delivered by a larger number of beams. These smaller beams–up to 160 in the example here–improve focusing and reduce neutron collimation up beam lines.
