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GLE gets incentives, draft EIS
The governments of Kentucky and McCracken County have granted preliminary approval to Global Laser Enrichment for a comprehensive incentive package to support the development of the North Carolina–based company’s planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility in the western part of the state. The performance-based incentive package would provide as much as $98.9 million in tax incentives and other economic incentives—provided that GLE reaches the required thresholds in investments and job creation.
In addition, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has completed a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) in response to GLE’s application to construct and operate the PLEF. Members of the public can submit comments on the draft EIS by May 11 for consideration by the NRC.
S. G. Durbin, C. W. Morrow, M. E. Kipp, D. L. Smith
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 465-469
IFE Drivers and Chambers | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8946
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The ultimate goal of this research is to understand how the recyclable transmission lines (RTL) fail and break apart following each power generating pulse under inertial-fusion-energy-type loading. Containing and collecting the resulting dust, debris, and shrapnel so that it may be repetitively reprocessed and recycled is an especially important step, among many others, to successfully operating a power plant. In this paper the current and the dynamic pressure pulse along the RTL are simulated with the Micro-Cap network circuit code. These results are used as inputs to the CTH shock physics code that characterizes the debris formation and containment wall impacts. These models were applied to represent different sections of the RTL at two resolutions. The following discussion addresses the full size nested cone RTL for a Z-pinch IFE power plant.