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WEST claims latest plasma confinement record
The French magnetic confinement fusion tokamak known as WEST maintained a plasma in February for more than 22 minutes—1,337 seconds, to be precise—and “smashed” the previous record plasma duration for a tokamak with a 25 percent improvement, according to the CEA, which operates the machine. The previous 1,006-second record was set by China’s EAST just a few weeks prior. Records are made to be broken, but this rapid progress illustrates a collective, global increase in plasma confinement expertise, aided by tungsten in key components.
L. Finkelstein, A. Krumbein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 2 | June 1976 | Pages 113-119
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26867
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A class of partial differential equations is considered that is directly connected with the transport equation. It is shown that if the initial-boundary conditions are specified on a given net as univariate quadratic splines, then there exists a bivariate quadratic spline unique on the net that satisfies exactly the initial boundary conditions and satisfies the differential equation at the nodes of the net. The spline is then constructed by an exact finite-difference scheme. As a first application we provide a new algorithm for a spherically symmetric problem in neutron transport theory. This is further illustrated by numerical examples.