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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.
José M. Martínez-Val, Mireia Piera
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 2 | March 1993 | Pages 218-226
Technical Note | ICF Target | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30149
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Two regimes of hydrodynamic evolution are found in the analysis of the performance of small-scale heavy-ion-driven targets. One leads to high density and high compression with moderate temperatures (∼1 keV) for driving energies of 100 kJ for 0.1-mg deuterium-tritium targets. Ignition can then be triggered by a second ion pulse (∼50 kJ). Breakeven could be obtained if a burnup fraction as small as 1% is obtained. The second regime leads to very high temperatures in the central part of the fuel, while the rest of the fuel remains at moderate temperatures (<1 keV), and the density is very low everywhere. Propagated ignition cannot occur in this case because of the small optical thickness of the compressed fuel (<0.1 g/cm2).