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Diablo Canyon receives partial Civil Nuclear Credit payment
Pacific Gas and Electric has received a federal credit payment of $271 million from the Department of Energy under the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) Program, which was set up in 2022 as a $6 billion federal strategic investment to help preserve the existing U.S. nuclear reactor fleet. The Award Cycle 1 funds just disbursed cover extended operations for Diablo Canyon-1, with the DOE noting that Unit 2 will become eligible for a CNC payment after completion of the 2025 award year audit.
Sarah Goujard, Aurélie Zentz, Christelle Pontier, Véronique Durand, Pauline Valois
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 82 | Number 5 | July 2026 | Pages 974-985
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2521597
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In the French Simulation Program, poly(alpha-methylstyrene) (PAMS) microshells serve as mandrels for capsules used within inertial confinement fusion targets on the LMJ (Laser MégaJoule). Controlled double emulsions are employed to produce micrometer- to millimeter-sized water-in-oil-in-water emulsions, which are subsequently dried and emptied to solidify the mandrels while avoiding surface or sphericity defects. This work evaluates two injection systems, mechanical and pressure-driven, for the production of triphasic emulsions. The pressure-driven system demonstrated superior control over flow dispersions across all three injected phases, offering enhanced injection monitoring and early detection of anomalies. Optical measurements of dried PAMS mandrels with a common diameter of 1900 µm, often used in laser experiments, revealed significantly improved characteristics when produced using the pressure-driven system. These improvements included reduced standard deviation and narrower diameter ranges.