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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
J. Phillip Sharpe, Philippe Chappuis, David A. Petti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1061-1065
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963384
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Tokamak dust, the particulate matter generated during operation of a tokamak fusion device, was collected from Tore Supra in December 1999, during the initial phase of the scheduled shutdown for installation of advanced plasma facing components. Surface mass densities of material collected from locations with measured surface area are 1100 mg/m2 at the vessel bottom and 15 mg/m2 on average for all other locations. The specific surface area of dust collected from several locations is nearly uniform with an average value of 1.32 g/m2. Geometric mean diameters of samples from different locations have an average value of 3.0 μm, although geometric standard deviations vary from 1.93 to 4.03. The dust is composed of various quantities of carbon, iron, nickel, silicon, and chromium, among other trace elements.