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Kentucky legislature sends nuclear bills to governor
Kentucky’s Republican-majority legislature passed a bill this past week that could bring nuclear energy to the “coal-is-king” state as lawmakers broadly seek solutions to reduce carbon emissions. The bill went to Democratic Gov. Andrew Beshear on Monday for final approval.
Géraldine Moll, Michel Martin, Rémy Collier
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | April 2009 | Pages 283-289
Technical Paper | Eighteenth Target Fabrication Specialists' Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A6951
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This paper presents a detailed assessment of the intermediate step design Laser Megajoule cryogenic target thermal behavior. Several simulations were carried out with a computational fluid dynamics code named FLUENT in order to better understand the effect of different parameters on this new design.