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Perpetual Atomics, QSA Global produce Am fuel for nuclear space power
U.K.-based Perpetual Atomics and U.S.-based QSA Global claim to have achieved a major step forward in processing americium dioxide to fuel radioisotope power systems used in space missions. Using an industrially scalable process, the companies said they have turned americium into stable, large-scale ceramic pellets that can be directly integrated into sealed sources for radioisotope power systems, including radioisotope heater units (RHUs) and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs).
C. R. Gould, J. R. Boyce
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 477-481
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26909
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Many reactions involving 6Li are of interest in studies of the performance of charged particle fusion reactor systems. We report measurements of the absolute cross sections for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction from 3 to 6 Me V and include the first estimates of the absolute magnitude of the three-body continuum cross section 6Li(3He, p)2α. The cross sections below 1 MeV are calculated from an s-wave Gamow extrapolation and are used to extract the Maxwell-averaged reaction rate for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction leading to the ground and first excited states of 8Be.
