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DOE issues final RFQ for WIPP clean energy initiative
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for qualifications for interested parties and prospective offerors looking to enter into a realty agreement for carbon-pollution-free electricity (CFE) projects at the department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in southeastern New Mexico.
K. Masuda, K. Taruya, T. Koyama, H. Hashimoto, K. Yoshikawa, H. Toku, Y. Yamamoto, M. Ohnishi, H. Horiike, N. Inoue
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 562-566
Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963296
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Simultaneous measurements of neutrons and protons were carried out to identify D-D fusion reactions in an Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion (IECF) device, which is theoretically expected to produce D-D protons and neutrons in a dense plasma core at the center. Experimental results showed an excellent agreement of a measured proton energy with the predicted one, and a strong linear correlation between neutron and proton yields, both indicating conclusively D-D fusion reactions in the IECF device. It is also found, through comparison between neutron and collimated proton yields, that more than 98 % of the fusion reactions take place outside the central core region under the present experimental conditions.