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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
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.
