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Subcommittee focuses on nuclear plans, deployment
Wright
Energy Secretary Chris Wright testified before the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Water Development Subcommittee yesterday to discuss how the Department of Energy would be impacted by the president’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget.
The meeting highlighted concerns from lawmakers about the DOE’s spending and efficiency—pointing to the rise in the department’s budget from $61 billion in FY 2021 to $160 billion last year.
Committee chair John Kennedy (R., La.) called the DOE spending pattern “unsustainable.”
“The average electricity bill . . . for the average American family over the past four years is up 28 percent. That’s the first thing they care about,” Kennedy said. “We’ve got to address it . . . and talk very specifically about what programs are working and what isn’t.”
Johann Rafelski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 3 | November 1985 | Pages 2727-2730
Technical Note | Fusion Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24694
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Muon loss to side cycles of muon catalyzed fusion is discussed in a schematic model. Experimentally extracted values for permanent muon loss probability (“muon sticking”) depend on the presence of cycles terminating by formation of unobservable low-energy neutrons.
