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NRC completes environmental review of Dresden SLR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that the environmental impacts of renewing the operating license of the Dresden nuclear power plant outside Chicago, Ill., for an additional 20 years are not great enough to prohibit doing so.
R. R. Paguio, D. Jaison, K. M. Saito, K. Quan, J. F. Hund, A. Nikroo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 199-204
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11525
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Possible designs for future direct- and indirect-drive targets required for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) include resorcinol formaldehyde (R/F) foam shells. Depending on the experiment type, the shell dimensional specifications can range from 1.5- to 3.5-mm diameter with a 100- to 200-m wall. This paper will discuss the adjustments and modifications of the process developed for smaller-diameter ([approximately]900-m) OMEGA-scale R/F shells that were used to fabricate these higher-aspect-ratio NIF-scale shells.