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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.
Mohamed E. Sawan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1483-1488
Fusion Nucleonic | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24943
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Geometrical and spectral differences between inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) facilities lead to significant variation of up to ∼ 60% in peak values and profiles of the time averaged blanket nuclear parameters for the same first wall exposure. Simple scaling of radiation effects with neutron wall loading is inappropriate. These effects together with the temporal effects, that result in ∼ 5 to 8 orders of magnitude higher instantaneous reaction rates in the pulsed ICF reactors, lead to significantly different blanket performances in the ICF and MCF reactor environments.