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IAEA calls for action following drone attacks at Ukraine nuclear plant
A recent drone attack at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant prompted an emergency meeting by the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, during which the agency again called for the immediate removal of Russian military and personnel from the site.
Gregory A. Moses, John F. Santarius
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1121-1125
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Inertial Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A836
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The so-called ''threat spectra'' of an inertial fusion energy (IFE) high gain target (neutron, x-ray, and ion energy fraction and particle spectra) are the usual starting point for IFE reactor conceptual design. The threat spectra are typically computed using the same radiation hydrodynamics and thermonuclear burn computer simulation codes used to compute implosion, ignition and burn. We analyze the validity of this model for simulating the expansion of the direct drive IFE target plasma and for computing threat spectra. Particular attention is paid to the collisionality of the expanding plasma.