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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Jungchung Jung, John V. Foley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 1998-2009
Technical Paper | Blanket Comparison and Selection Study | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24575
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Three-dimensional, tritium breeding, and energy multiplication analyses were performed for nine tandem mirror reactor (TMR) designs and seven tokamak reactor designs that had evolved as the “rank-1” concept from the latest Blanket Comparison and Selection Study. These designs include a variety of combinations of candidate breeder, coolant, and structural materials that seem most promising for the respective TMR/tokamak concept application. The analysis was performed using a single consistent computational technique, i.e., a continuous energy Monte Carlo transport method based on MCNP with the associated cross-section libraries based on the latest ENDF/B-V data. Through a comparative study of those 16 candidate blanket designs, an attempt is made to rank them from a standpoint of the neutronic blanket performance.