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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.
Bernhard Unterberg, Ulrich Samm
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 229-236
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Edge Physics and Exhaust | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A487
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Basic properties of the plasma edge in magnetically confined fusion plasmas are summarised. Starting from the magnetic topology of tokamaks we describe the transport of the scrape-off layer including drifts and the consequences of the electrostatic Debye sheath in front of the plasma facing components. The relation between the local plasma density and temperature at the targets and the fluxes of power and particles in the SOL is discussed. The transport of the fuel neutrals (hydrogen atoms and molecules) is described.
