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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.
R. W. Hoff, D. W. Dorn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 1 | January 1964 | Pages 110-112
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18146
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
On November 27, 1962, a low-yield thermonuclear device was fired underground at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site in the Anacostia event. This experiment was part of the AEC Project Plowshare - a program to explore the scientific and industrial uses of nuclear explosives. Radiochemical analysis of the debris established the fact that elements at least through mass number A = 246 were formed. The plot of abundance versus mass number can be fitted assuming a single flux region of about 3 × 1024 neutrons/cm2.
