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LLNL offers tools to model the economics of inertial fusion power plants
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has designed a model to help assess the economic impact of future fusion power plant operations—specifically, the operation of inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plants. Further, it has made its Generalized Economics Model (GEM) for Fusion Technology—an Excel spreadsheet—available for download.
Yusuke Ohashi, Masamitsu Shimaike, Takashi Matsumoto, Nobuo Takahashi, Kaoru Yokoyama, Yasuyuki Morimoto
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 5 | May 2023 | Pages 777-786
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2145136
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At the Ningyo-Toge Environmental Engineering Center, technical developments related to uranium refining conversion and enrichment have been completed and decommissioning of these facilities has begun. The error between the quantity of dismantled materials estimated from the facility design drawings and the actual quantity of the dismantled materials was about 1.7% when averaged over the entire facilities already dismantled. Most of the dismantled materials, which have no contamination history and were properly managed, were confirmed to have surface radioactivity concentrations below the detection limit and could be carried out to recyclers as nonradioactive (NR) waste. The dismantled materials that could not be certified as NR needed to be cleared and reused. By evaluating two types of gamma rays of 234mPa from the mockup dismantled objects, it was found that uranium corresponding to a clearance level (1.2 × 102 Bq/kg) could be quantified.