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DOE issues RFI for a spent fuel consolidated interim storage facility
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has issued a request for information opportunity for the design and construction of a federal consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel. The DOE is planning on establishing a federal CISF to manage SNF until a permanent repository is available. In May, the DOE received initial approval, known as “Critical Decision-0,” for such a facility.
The deadline for submissions is September 5.
Frédéric Ben Saïd, Benoît Reneaume, Christophe Dauteuil, Olivier Breton, Ronan Botrel, Cédric Chicanne, Isabelle Geoffray, Rémy Collier, Olivier Legaie
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 234-239
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11530
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER) is a European project dedicated to demonstrating the feasibility of producing energy by laser-driven inertial confinement fusion. A first design of the fast ignition cryogenic target has been established. It is composed of a thin-walled microshell with an inserted gold cone and filled with deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel by means of a capillary (conically guided capsule). After assembly, targets must be tight at cryogenic temperatures (16 to 19.6 K).In order to evaluate the manufacturing feasibility of a single-shot target prototype, a program has been adapted from the Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) cryogenic target fabrication know-how. Target component study for HiPER concerns a hollow gold cone (25-deg half-angle and [approximately]25-m thickness), a thin polymeric microshell (2-mm diameter and 3- to 10-m thickness), and a silica capillary (30-m outer diameter).First gas-tight targets at 77 K have been produced (helium gas leak rate [approximately]1.4 × 10-11 Pam3/s). Major efforts have been focused on thin-walled microshells, robust gold cone fabrication, and target assembly (minimizing of the glue quantity as well as helium gas leak tests) and will be discussed in this paper.