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Fusion office bill introduced in line with DOE reorganization plan
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Sens. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas) have introduced bipartisan legislation to formally establish the Office of Fusion at the Department of Energy. This move seeks to codify one of the many changes put forward by the recent internal reorganization plan for offices at the DOE.
Companion legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Don Beyer (D., Va.) and Jay Obernolte (R., Calif.), who are cochairs of the House Fusion Energy Caucus.
Details: According to Obernolte, “Congress must provide clear direction and a coordinated federal strategy to move fusion from the lab to the grid, and this legislation does exactly that.”
Shinichi Kitawaki, Akira Nakayoshi, Mineo Fukushima, Noboru Yahagi, Masaki Kurata
Nuclear Technology | Volume 171 | Number 3 | September 2010 | Pages 285-291
Technical Paper | Pyro 08 Special / Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT10-A10863
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Various residues containing uranium and transuranic are considered to be generated in pyroprocessing, and provided that the actinide elements are recovered from the residues, this can contribute to increasing the recovery ratio in the entire process. In this study the chemical form of the anode residues generated in our previous electrolysis test was investigated. The anode residue consisted of PuOCl, PuO2, and UO when electrolysis was performed using reduced oxide fuels, which are thought to be formed by the reaction between the anode residue and U-chloride contained in the molten salt. By adding ZrCl4 the actinide contained in the residue was converted to chloride. The chlorination reaction took [approximately]10 h to complete.