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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.
I.N. Sviatoslavsky, S.I. Abdel-Khalik, M.L. Corradini, L.J. Wittenberg, G.L. Kulcinski, K.Y. Huh, M. El-Afify
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 980-985
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-A40161
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Among the specific limitations which tend to complicate a compact high wall loading (HWL) tokamak reactor design are high surface and nuclear heating, compactness leading to crowded components, unlikely breeding on the inboard side and frequent first wall/blanket replacement. This paper describes the mechanical, thermal hydraulic and tritium aspects of an improved blanket design for a high β (20%), high wall loading (∼ 10 MW/m2) compact fusion power reactor of 1000 MWth power output.