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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
T.J. McCarville
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1815-1819
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40024
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Conceptual design for an ICF tritium production reactor has been completed. The cavity design is unique in that beryllium is used both as a neutron multiplier and a structural material. Neutronics calculations show the breeding ratio is over 2.0. The special problems posed by using beryllium as a structural material in a radiation environment are explored, and stresses and strains are quanitified.
