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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
Alexander E. Mandl, Daniel E. Klimek, Edward T. Salesky
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 11 | Number 3 | May 1987 | Pages 542-547
Technical Paper | KrF Laser | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25034
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Measurements were made of the intrinsic laser efficiency of the KrF excimer laser system as a function of increasing krypton buffer gas at pump rates up to 0.17 MW/cm3. The results show that the laser efficiency monotonically increases with increased krypton concentration to a maximum value of 12% for a pure krypton buffer gas. Code calculations show very good agreement with experiment.
