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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.
G. H. Miley, J. Nadler, T. Hochberg, Y. Gu, O. Barnouin, J. Lovberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 840-845
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-3
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) is currently undergoing renewed experimental and theoretical study as a fusion reactor scheme that can burn advanced fuels such as D-3He and p-11B. The goal of the IEC approach is the confinement of plasma inside multiple nested spherical potential wells. These wells are created by injecting ions into a highly transparent, high voltage (5 – 50 kV) spherical cathode. Multiple passes of ions through the center create a high density non-Maxwellian core. An IEC device can produce intense beam-background (ion-neutral) and beam-beam (ion-ion) fusion reactions with or without the formation of a “Poissor” structure (multiple well). Two different approaches for injecting ions are also under study: ion guns and ionization of background gas. The initial experimental results presented here are taken in the non-Poissor beam-background mode as a precursor to experimentation in the more complex beam-beam and Poissor modes.
