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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.
M. S. Pandey, J. B. Garg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 399-404
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26901
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High resolution measurements of the total neutron cross section from 200 eV to ∼50 keV in natural copper have been performed using time-of-flight techniques. From the R-matrix analysis of the data, values of E0, Γn, Jπ of resonances, strength functions, and average level spacings are obtained. For in units of eV−1/2 were obtained. Similarly, the average level spacings are determined for 63Cu⟨D⟩ J = 1 = (2.38 ± 0.38) keV, ⟨D⟩J = 2 = (3.57 ± 0.70) keV and for 65Cu⟨D⟩J = 1 = (3.85 ± 0.88) keV and ⟨D⟩J = 2 = (5.0 ± 1.2) keV.
