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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Y. Tanaka, T. Suzuki, S. Mori, S. Yamazaki, M. Misumi, T. Tone, T. Kobayashi, H. Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 947-952
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-A40155
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Applicability of Li2O pebble type breeder has been investigated. Current experimental and analytical studies reveal that problems of thermal stress cracking and vaporization mass transfer can be resolved. Design feasibility studies of Li2O pebble type blanket have been performed for the FER and a power reactor. Results show that Li2O pebble breeder makes it possible to design blankets with high breeding ratio and high breeder integrity which can satisfy design requirements with some allowance for uncertainties or variations of parameters.
