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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Cryocooler System with Recirculating Helium Gas Cools Continuous Transfer Type Cryostats
The ongoing global helium shortage continues to adversely affect researchers, many of whom are unable to use these their existing continuous transfer cryostats to perform research due to high operating costs or limited LHe availability. Janis Research is now offering … Continue reading
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The History of The Helium Crisis
In the 1990’s, the US Bureau of Land Management unintentionally became the worlds largest supplier of helium. Last year, the world faced a potential helium cliff, when the US government had to decide whether to keep selling helium or exit … Continue reading
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Western Digital Readies First 10TB Hard Drive, Ships New 8TB Drive
Western Digital’s HGST unit announced on September 9 that the company has begun to ship a new version of its helium-filled disk drive, the Ultrastar He8—with 8-terabytes of data storage capacity. And the company has an even bigger capacity drive … Continue reading
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Amsterdam Urged To Ban Mass Releases of Helium Balloons
The Amsterdam branch of animal rights party PvdD wants the city to ban mass balloon releases, saying the deflated balloons are a danger to animals. Even though some types of balloons are biodegradable, ‘releasing balloons is the same as throwing … Continue reading
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Neoclassical and Gyrokinetic Analysis of Time-dependent Helium Transport Experiments on MAST
Time-dependent helium gas puff experiments have been performed on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) during a two point plasma current scan in L-mode and a confinement scan at 900 kA. An evaluation of the He II spectrum line induced … Continue reading
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