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Fusion office bill introduced in line with DOE reorganization plan
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Sens. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas) have introduced bipartisan legislation to formally establish the Office of Fusion at the Department of Energy. This move seeks to codify one of the many changes put forward by the recent internal reorganization plan for offices at the DOE.
Companion legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Don Beyer (D., Va.) and Jay Obernolte (R., Calif.), who are cochairs of the House Fusion Energy Caucus.
Details: According to Obernolte, “Congress must provide clear direction and a coordinated federal strategy to move fusion from the lab to the grid, and this legislation does exactly that.”
T. Bernat, C. Castro, J. Hund, A. Pastrnak, N. Petta, J. Sin, O. Stein
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 73 | Number 3 | April 2018 | Pages 392-399
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1406250
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Thin polyimide (PI) windows are used to contain gases in a variety of targets including National Ignition Facility ignition targets. Magnetized liner inertial fusion targets shot on the Sandia National Laboratory Z-facility and on the University of Rochester OMEGA laser facility typically contain deuterium gas in the pressure range from a few to as many as 15 atm, with the window diameters ranging from a few tenths of a millimeter at OMEGA to several millimeters at the Z-facility. These pressures are generally higher, with larger plastic deformations, than previously investigated. We have fabricated and assembled PI windows and measured their deflections and burst pressures for these pressure and diameter ranges at room temperature. The results are dependent on PI formulation and the details of the window assembly geometry. We analyze the scaling behavior of these higher-pressure windows similarly to but with an extension of the analysis of Bhandarkar et al. [Fusion Sci. Technol., Vol. 70, p. 332] and show that predictions of pressure-induced deflection using this analysis applies to a more complex window geometry than previously reported.