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ANS members approve amendment adding YMG rep to board of directors
The American Nuclear Society will include a representative from the Young Members Group on its Board of Directors after ANS members voted this week overwhelmingly in favor of amending Article B6 of the ANS bylaws. The change was mandated by Objective Outcome 5 of the ANS Change Plan 2020.
To keep the number of directors at 16, the approved amendment decreased the number of non–U.S. resident directors from three to two.
E. R. Koresheva, I. V. Aleksandrova, I. E. Osipov, S. V. Bazdenkov, V. I. Chtcherbakov, E. L. Koshelev, A. I. Nikitenko, S. M. Tolokonnikov, L. S. Yaguzinskiy, G. D. Baranov, A. I. Safronov, I. D. Timofeev, B. V. Kuteev, V. G. Kapralov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 3 | May 2003 | Pages 290-300
Technical Paper | Targets and Target Protection During Injection | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A269
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Lebedev Physical Institute conducts a wide research and development program to supply targets for inertial fusion energy (IFE) research. Current essential results in that area include the following: (a) A free-standing target (FST) system has been created, which allows the filling, layering, characterizing, and placing of targets into a test optical chamber by injection at a rate of 0.1 Hz, (b) a special physical layout has been developed to carry out the layering experiments in a wide range of target diameters including reactor scaled ones, and (c) the reconstruction algorithms and scan system are under way to complete the FST system with a new subsystem for univalent target characterization based on microtomography. Specific issues for future IFE target technology and injection research are discussed, which include (a) adding a small doping to the fuel to form a cryogenic layer in a glassy state, (b) using large shells with a metallic layer onto the outer surface to shorten the layering time for reactor targets, (c) the cell for target motion driving application to FST technology, and (d) designing a prototypical facility for repeatable target fabrication and injection.
