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Bahrain signs a nuclear collaboration MOU with the U.S.
Less than a week after news broke of the U.S. entering into civil nuclear talks with Malaysia, the U.S. State Department announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani have also signed a memorandum of understanding concerning civil nuclear cooperation.
T. Cardenas, T. J. Murphy, L. Kuettner, B. Patterson, L. Goodwin, K. Cluff, J. Oertel, T. Day, S. Edwards, C. E. Hamilton, R. Randolph, K. Henderson, J. Cowan, S. J. Shin, S. Bhandarkar, B. J. Kozioziemski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 7 | October 2020 | Pages 795-806
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1790713
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
One of the great challenges of inertial confinement fusion and high energy density experiments is understanding the effects of mix on thermonuclear burn. The MARBLE campaign, conceived at Los Alamos National Laboratory, aims to gather new insights into this issue by utilizing unique target capsules containing polymer foams of variable pore sizes, tunable over an order of magnitude. Such capsules allow the degree of initial heterogeneity to be controlled experimentally for the first time. Here, we describe the various characterization efforts used to gain understanding of the chemical structure and behavior of the foam. Previous experiments were not sensitive to foam physical properties, and the MARBLE platform has aided in the development of techniques to measure foam properties such as deuterium content, density variation, hydrogen adsorption, and pore size and volume distribution.