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Energy is everything
Lisa Marshallpresident@ans.org
Energy is the foundation of modern society. It enhances quality of life and drives industrialization. As we work toward fuller energy transition, policies are essential to organizing our march forward. Bipartisan legislation is doing just that, propelling our current and future actions.
The Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act will help propel the work of industry, academia, and several branches of government in exciting—and necessary—directions.
The Senate introduced the act in March 2023, and the House of Representatives passed the Fire Grants and Safety Act, which incorporated the ADVANCE Act, on May 9, 2024 (393–13). Then on June 18, the Senate passed the ADVANCE Act (88–2), and on July 9, President Biden signed the bill into law. New and revised approaches to process and deployment of nuclear energy capacity is well on its way. Below, I have highlighted a few title sections to show scope and significance.
Nobukazu Kameyama, Hiroki Yoshida
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | March-April 2013 | Pages 120-124
Technical Paper | Selected papers from 20th Target Fabrication Meeting, May 20-24, 2012, Santa Fe, NM, Guest Editor: Robert C. Cook | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16328
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In nonmechanical beam steering with phase conjugate (PC) mirrors, the scattered and reflected beams from a foam target are utilized. A scattering and reflection model has been made that coincides with the experimental results with an error between ±15%. In the case where four probe beams irradiated a foam target, the three-dimensional intensity distribution was simulated. The peak-to-minimum variation of the reflected plus the scattered energy per unit solid angle was [approximately]20% of the average energy.The PC beam direction needs to compensate for target motion (v [approximately] 300 m/s) to accurately irradiate an injected target with laser beams in the method of beam steering with PC mirrors. The compensation with four-wave mixing utilized as a PC mirror is shown. A PC beam can be adjusted by properly setting the angle between two pump beams.