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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 465-469
IFE Drivers and Chambers | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8946
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The ultimate goal of this research is to understand how the recyclable transmission lines (RTL) fail and break apart following each power generating pulse under inertial-fusion-energy-type loading. Containing and collecting the resulting dust, debris, and shrapnel so that it may be repetitively reprocessed and recycled is an especially important step, among many others, to successfully operating a power plant. In this paper the current and the dynamic pressure pulse along the RTL are simulated with the Micro-Cap network circuit code. These results are used as inputs to the CTH shock physics code that characterizes the debris formation and containment wall impacts. These models were applied to represent different sections of the RTL at two resolutions. The following discussion addresses the full size nested cone RTL for a Z-pinch IFE power plant.