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Wyoming as a hub for new nuclear manufacturing and microreactor deployment?
A 60-year-old Wyoming industrial machinery company is partnering with nuclear innovator BWX Technologies to deploy 50-megawatt microreactors in America’s heartland over the coming years to provide carbon-free heat and power for industrial users.
Dennis G. Whyte, Emile Haddad, Brian C. Gregory, Gilles Abel
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 399-406
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29656
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A laser ablation impurity injector has been designed for use on the Centre Canadien de Fusion Magnétique Tokamak de Varennes. A method using nuclear activation analysis of ablation-exposed targets has been developed to measure the exact quantities and spatial distribution of the injected particles. Combined with time-of-flight velocity measurements, the injector has been characterized in terms of laser energy fluence, ablated material, film thickness, and background gas pressure. Three distinct populations of ablated material (atoms, molecular clusters, and micron-sized liquid droplets) have been identified and studied.