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NRC wants input on Hermes 2 test reactor construction permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking input on its draft environmental assessment and draft finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power’s application to build the Hermes 2 test reactor facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Hiroshi Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 1006-1011
Advanced Energy Conversion/Storage and Exotic Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946974
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Two kinds of tunable coherent photons for positronium formation and annihilation can be generated by coalescing focused, high-intensity e and e+ beams which are accelerated in the same direction. Positronium formation can be enhanced by laser irradiation or by installing an undulator magnetic field in cases where the density of e and e+ plasma is not high. In the case of very high density, slender rod-type geometry plasma, positronium can be formed by super-radiant, superfluorescence, or amplified, spontaneous emission processes, and a coherent laser can be generated.