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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
J. C. Doyle, D. R. Cohn, L. M. Lidsky, L. Bromberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1051-1056
Fusion Breeder | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39911
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Application of resistive magnet tokamaks to fissile fuel production has been studied. The Resistive magnet Tokamak Fusion Breeder (RTFB) uses semi-monolithic Bitter plate toroidal field coils and has a major radius of 3.81 m. with a fusion power output of 618 MWth. An energy-multiplying blanket gives a total blanket power of 4986 MWth, while producing 3742 kg/yr of 233U and 239Pu. The RTFB cost is estimated to be $2.6B.
