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The two reactors at Dominion Energy’s Surry plant are among the oldest in the U.S. nuclear fleet. Yet when the plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, staff could raise a toast to the future. Surry was one of the first plants to file a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application, and in May 2021, it became official: the plant was licensed to operate for a full 80 years, extending its reactors’ lifespans into 2052 and 2053.
Mikhail L. Shmatov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 3 | May 2003 | Pages 456-467
Technical Paper | Fast Ignition Targets and Z-Pinch Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A291
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The model according to which D-T fuel with a density of ~300 g/cm3 can be heated to 12 keV by the diverging fluxes of the B+5 or C+6 ions, generated by the ultrahigh-intensity laser beams, is presented. The requirements on focusing of protons and Be+4 ions being used in the similar ignition scenarios are estimated. Heating the compressed fuel by microexplosion that occurs inside the cone, "tamped" by this fuel, is proposed. Problems related to possibility of formation of the cumulative jets and striking cores due to collapse of the cones used for heating the compressed fuel are considered.
