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Knoxville’s nuclear workshop opens with a full house and a long to-do list
The East Tennessee Economic Council’s Nuclear Opportunities Workshop opened yesterday morning at the Knoxville Convention Center, drawing registrants from around the country, and will close later today following a packed lineup of policy and industry leaders.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 614-618
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40107
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An investigation aimed at identifying methods of flattening the power distribution in D-T blankets has been carried out. Three methods were identified which when used in conjunction produce power distributions which are significantly flatter than those produced by typical blankets. The peak-to-average power density ratio is reduced by over 50%, and the peak-to minimum power fall-off is reduced by a factor of five. Power flattened blankets achieve tritium breeding ratios and blanket multiplication which could be somewhat higher than those of typical blanket designs.