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UNC, GE agree to clean up former New Mexico uranium mine
The United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) and General Electric Company will undertake a nearly $63 million, decade-long cleanup project at the former Northeast Church Rock Mine in northwestern New Mexico under a consent decree with the United States, the Navajo Nation, and the state of New Mexico.
N. G. Borisenko, V. M. Dorogotovtsev, A. I. Gromov, S. Yu, Guskov, Yu. A. Merkul'ev, Yu. E. Markushkin, N. A. Chirin, A. K. Shikov., V. F. Petrunin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | July 2000 | Pages 161-165
Technical Paper | Thirteenth Target Fabrication Specialists’ Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A36135
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Laser targets made of beryllium deuteride BeD2, nanocrystalline beryllium and of low-density beryllium are reported. Spherical laser targets are strong enough and are capable of storing DT-mixture for a long time, compared to that of SiO2 shells.
