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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
D. H. Berwald, S. Zenczak
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1143-1151
Beryllium Technology | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39923
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Recent fusion electric and fusion breeder reactor design studies would utilize beryllium as a neutron multiplier. In this paper, this proposed usage is considered in the context of domestic and worldwide beryllium resources. Beryllium usage and resources are assessed, requirements for fusion-electric and fusion breeder designs are compiled, and estimates of the fusion economy which can be supported by the identified berylliym resource are developed. The results indicate that a substantial fusion economy can be supported by projected resources. However, efficient utilization and beryllium recycle will be required.