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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 795-801
Impurity Control | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24837
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A mechanism for positioning the Advanced Limiter Test II (ALT-II) limiter blades inside the TEXTOR tokamak is described. Testing of two candidate material pairs for use as gears and bearings, Nitronic 60/aluminum bronze and Nitronic 60/Nitronic 60, is also described. The lubricant was a solid film of MoS2. The testing, done at the temperature and pressure range of the tokamak, revealed that the combination of Nitronic 60 and the softer aluminum bronze performed much better than the Nitronic 60/Nitronic 60 combination. The latter combination performed well for 24,000 cycles (48% of expected lifetime), but then experienced a sudden increase in friction due to galling. The former pair performed well, exhibiting low friction throughout the duration of the test.