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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
W. Kowbel, M. Tillack
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 3 | April 2005 | Pages 596-600
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Inertial Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A751
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Inertial Fusion (IFE) optics presents a unique challenge. Ghoniem provides a mirror design for such an application. The surface has been chosen to be metallic, because dielectric materials exhibit great sensitivity to the effects of ionizing radiation. The leading high reflectivity candidate materials are aluminum, magnesium, silver, gold and copper. To select between these metals the following criteria were used:1) high reflectivity in the wavelength of interest2) effects of radiation on absorptivity3) surface temperature rise during the laser pulse4) thermal fatigue resistance5) radiation effects on surface deformation