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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.
Yuji Ishiguro, José Rubens Maiorino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 4 | August 1977 | Pages 507-509
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27066
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The singular-eigenfunction-expansion method and the principle of invariance are combined to reduce the two-half-space Milne problem to a regular computational form in the two-group isotropic scattering model. The method used here consists in considering a problem of two contiguous half-spaces with surface sources at the interface. The problem is equivalent to the Milne problem in the sense that the expansion coefficients are to be determined from the same equation. The emergent distributions are obtained from coupled regular integral equations. The expansion coefficients can then be obtained using the halfrange orthogonality relation of the eigenfunctions. Numerical results are reported for light-water media.