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DOE approves Xcimer’s laser fusion power plant design
The Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy's Athena fusion power plant preconceptual technical design. With this milestone achieved, the Denver, Colo.-based company is now moving forward with its plans to develop economical laser inertial confinement fusion using two beamlines, gas laser technology, and a molten salt fusion chamber.
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory demonstrated net energy gain from inertial confinement fusion in 2022 using solid-state glass lasers and 192 beamlines.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Brian Hunt is a Certified Health Physicist who has been supporting NNSA’s Consequence Management (CM) Program and the Federal Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 2008. Brian currently serves as a deployable responder, instructor, and as the Chair of the Interagency FRMAC Assessment Working Group, which is responsible for establishing Federal Government policy for implementing consistent, defensible, state-of-the-art radiological assessment methods for emergency response. Brian holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He received his ABHP certification in 2009.
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