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From Capitol Hill: Nuclear is back, critical for America’s energy future
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy convened its first hearing of the year, “American Energy Dominance: Dawn of the New Nuclear Era,” on January 7, where lawmakers and industry leaders discussed how nuclear energy can help meet surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, advanced manufacturing, and national security needs.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1109-1114
Nuclear Technology Development Issue and Need (Finesse) | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39919
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Directly related to the key technological issues identified within FINESSE are basic material interactions. These material interactions arise from material property changes and lead to interactive effects which have been identified for several first wall/blanket concepts. Emphasis has been placed upon those interactive effects which are directly related to accumulated neutron damage. For testing purposes the minimum accumulated neutron fluence needed to substantially reduce the uncertainty associated with an anticipated material interaction must be defined. A method of projecting uncertainties associated with interactive effects has been developed to determine these fluence goals for selected issues.