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DOE-NE’s newest fuel consortium includes defense from antitrust laws
The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy is setting up a nuclear fuel Defense Production Act Consortium that will seek voluntary agreements with interested companies “to increase fuel availability, provide more access to reliable power, and end America’s reliance on foreign sources of enriched uranium and critical materials needed to power the nation’s nuclear renaissance.” According to an August 22 DOE press release, the plan invokes the Defense Production Act (DPA) to give consortium members “defense from antitrust laws when certain criteria are met” and “allow industry consultation to develop plans of action.” DOE-NE is looking for interested companies to join the consortium ahead of its first meeting, scheduled for October 14.
Shigeru Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ohara, Shin Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 531-539
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29393
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The concept and the technical bases of a beam profile controller for a neutral beam injector to realize plasma current profile control in tokamak devices are proposed. Beam orbits of ions emitted from the ion source are controlled magnetically by the beam profile controller before entering the neutralizer. By making use of this beam profile control system, a different neutral beam intensity profile can be realized at the torus plasma without changing the neutral beam power level during one pulse of beam injection.
