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Crane restart boosted by $1B LPO loan
The Department of Energy announced on November 18 that it has closed on a $1 billion loan through its Loan Programs Office to Constellation to aid in financing the restart of the 835-MWe Crane Clean Energy Center, formerly Three Mile Island-1.
Nailya S. Akhmadullina, Valentin D. Borzosekov, Nina N. Skvortsova, Vladimir D. Stepakhin, Namik G. Gusein-Zade, Dmitriy V. Malakhov, Alexander V. Knyazev, Tatiana E. Gayanova, Anastasiya K. Kozak, Alexander S. Sokolov, Karen A. Sarksyan, Aleksey V. Ishchenko, Ilya A. Weinstein, Victor I. Grokhovsky, Oleg N. Shishilov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 7 | October 2024 | Pages 870-881
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2250669
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A new approach for simulation of the interaction of space and lunar dust with the surface of spacecrafts has been proposed. The approach is based on creating a dusty plasma cloud when the substance imitating the space or lunar dust is treated with high-power pulsed microwave radiation in the developed experimental facility. The facility consists of a high-power gyrotron (75 GHz, 0.8 MW); a plasma-chemical reactor; and a diagnostic complex, which includes optical emission spectrometers and a high-speed camera. The approach has been tested using the substance of the Tsarev meteorite, which represents a typical substance of meteorites. It was found that the substance mainly keeps the phase composition; however, the particles change their morphology due to rapid heating and melting.