Ablation of Fusion Materials Exposed to High Heat Flux in an Electrothermal Plasma Discharge as a Simulation for Hard Disruption

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J. R. Echols1, A. Leigh Winfrey1
1Nuclear Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061-0238, USA

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