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Access anywhere, anytime: Nuclear power, Ice Camp, and Rickover’s enduring standard of excellence
Admiral William Houston
As U.S. Navy submarines surface through Arctic ice during Ice Camp 2026, they demonstrate more than operational proficiency in one of the harshest environments on Earth. They reaffirm a technological truth first proven in August 1958, when the USS Nautilus completed its submerged transit of the North Pole: nuclear power enables access anywhere, anytime.
The Arctic is unforgiving, with vast distances, extreme cold, shifting ice, and no logistical infrastructure. Conventional propulsion is constrained by fuel, air, and endurance. Nuclear propulsion removes those constraints. Only a nuclear-powered submarine can operate anywhere in the world’s oceans, including under the polar ice, undetected and at maximum capability for extended periods. Nuclear power provides sustained high speed and the endurance to reposition across the globe without refueling.
Stephen J. Buckman, Michael J. Brunger, Kurunathan Ratnavelu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 3 | May 2013 | Pages 385-391
Technical Paper | Selected papers from IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, September 4-7, 2012, Daejeon, Republic of Korea | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16446
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We describe the challenges facing, and opportunities for, the scattering community as it attempts to provide complete cross-section databases for the modeling of a variety of important applications in fusion science and low-temperature plasmas. We outline a suggested protocol for how the community might collectively move forward to construct both benchmarked collision systems and ultimately a complete cross-section database for a given species. Some examples of scattering data and techniques that may be useful for benchmarking are provided.
