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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.
Mien-Win Wu, Jen-Chang Chou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 3 | July 1977 | Pages 268-275
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27039
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The cross section of the 58Ni(n, p)58Co reaction was determined by the activation method for neutron energies from 3 to 4.8 MeV. Neutron fluxes were measured with a laboratory-fabricated proton recoil telescope consisting of a radiator, an evacuated cell, and a surface barrier detector. The absolute efficiencies of the telescope for different neutron energies have been interpreted by Monte Carlo calculation as well as by a direct integration method. The fraction of activations induced by neutrons following single elastic scattering to those without scattering in the nickel sample was also calculated by a Monte Carlo program. The neutron attenuation through the nickel sample was also considered. Major sources of error in the cross-section determination are summarized and discussed. The total error was estimated to be 4 to 5%.
