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From Capitol Hill: Nuclear is back, critical for America’s energy future
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy convened its first hearing of the year, “American Energy Dominance: Dawn of the New Nuclear Era,” on January 7, where lawmakers and industry leaders discussed how nuclear energy can help meet surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, advanced manufacturing, and national security needs.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 258-262
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963863
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Practically all the fusion projects discussed and investigated up to now are the demonstrative projects or devices. The main goal is to show that Qα can be of the order of unity or more. But some other problems of future thermonuclear reactor are delayed to the far future, or ignored. Among these problems is a alpha- particles problem which partially was investigated as the problem of ITER.1–6 Some aspects of this problem related to the fusion reactor are discussed below.