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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.
H. Liskien, F. Arnotte, R. Widera, A. Paulsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 67 | Number 3 | September 1978 | Pages 334-338
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-7
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The excitation function for the reaction 115In(n,n′)115mIn was measured by the activation technique from threshold up to 4.1 MeV in 0.1-MeV steps. The absolute normalization of this excitation function has been performed at 2.1 MeV and is based on n-p scattering. The total uncertainty of the results is typically ±6% above 1 MeV. The results are in good agreement with recently published data.
