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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
M. Martin, C. Gauvin, A. Choux, P. Baclet, G. Pascal
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 4 | May 2006 | Pages 600-607
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST49-600
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Smooth solid DT layers inside a spherical shell are needed in order to achieve ignition on the Laser MegaJoule (LMJ) facility. This paper presents a few novel techniques developed in our lab to achieve the required temperature and surface roughness conditions. Results are presented that confirm our hypotheses and lead us to be confident that we may achieve the requirements for the cryogenic LMJ ignition target.
