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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
W. R. Meier, M. J. Monsler, W. J. Schafer, R. F. Bourque, I. N. Sviatoslavsky
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 808-812
Inertial Confinement Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946940
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The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy, has sponsored two teams to conduct conceptual design studies of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) electric power plants. W. J. Schafer Associates is heading an experienced team of fusion technology experts from Bechtel, General Atomics, Textron Defense Systems, and the University of Wisconsin. Our team is designing two 1000 MWe power plants, one driven by a KrF laser and the other by a heavy ion beam (HIB) induction accelerator. In this paper we report on the progress of the reactor chamber designs.