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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.
X. Z. Li, C. Ren, P. Jiang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1313-1316
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29523
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In a recent effort to produce fissile material in the blanket of a fusion-fission hybrid reactor.1,2 it is expected that the wave heating might enhance the fusion reaction rate by a factor of 5 in the experimental reactor and by a factor of 2 in the demonstration reactor. Therefore, Fokker Planck equation with ICRH has been solved to obtain the non-maxwellian distribution function for deuterons. It is pointed that Krapchev's paper3might lead to an overoptimistic result due to the improper reaction cross-section formula which is supposed to be applied only for low energy cases. Using the correct cross-section formula4, the calculations show that it is necessary to invoke other kind of non-maxwellian distribution function. Nonequipotential magnetic surfaces5in H-mode may cause such non-maxwellian distribution function.
