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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Juan Caneses (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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Pressure Response Optimization of an Eddy Current Driven Valve for the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System
Adriana G Ghiozzi (ORISE), Monica L Gehrig (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Dave A Rasmussen, Larry R Baylor, Milton N Ericson, Trey E Gebhart (ORNL), Danah A Velez (ORISE)
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Structural Analysis of the US ITER ECH Transmission Line System
Kevin Freudenberg, Kristine Cochran, Robert Myatt, Michael Kaufman, Aravind Shanmugasundaram (ORNL)
Optimization of Ion Flow Rates in a Helicon Injected IEC Fusion System
George H Miley, Qiheng Cai (University of Illinois)
Parallel operation with 9 sets of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IECF) devices
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan)
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Identification of hydrogen isotope ratio on IECF experiment with getter pump using deuterium and tritium mixed gas
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan), Teppei Ohta (Kansai University, Japan)
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