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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.
Yasushi Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Noborio, Satoshi Konishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1285-1289
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A866
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We have been developing a 1-D PIC simulation code for the spherical IECF, which includes atomic processes between energetic particles and background gases. In this paper, the electrode spacing effects on the neutron production rate (NPR) are investigated using this code by changing the cathode radius while keeping anode radius constant (17cm). Applied voltage (-90 kV) and ion injection current (50mA) are fixed with a deuterium pressure of 0.13 Pa, where the IECF discharge is not self-sustaining discharge and is in the ion injection mode.It is found that (1) the discharge voltage is not affected by the electrode spacing, (2) the neutron production rate increases with the increase of the cathode radius, and (3) the maximum obtained NPR with cathode radius of 10cm is about twice of that with the 3cm cathode.
