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The spotlight shines on a nuclear influencer
Brazilian model, nuclear advocate, and philanthropist Isabelle Boemeke, who the online TED lecture series describes as “the world’s first nuclear energy influencer,” was the subject of a recent New York Times article that explored her ardent support for and advocacy of nuclear technology.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 881-885
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor, Reactor Target, and Driver | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40265
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The essential physical phenomena that will occur in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) reactors can be studied in a facility where the driver energy and target yield are reduced. The Integrated Test Facility (ITF) will study reactor relevant phenomena affecting drivers, beam transport, targets, and target chambers. The target chambers for reactors and the ITF could be designed using any one of several target chamber concepts. This paper involves the comparison, with computer simulation, of the phenomena occurring in the target chambers of three power reactor concepts (OSIRIS, HYLIFE-II, and CASCADE) with that occurring in ITF target chambers using the same design concept.
