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Katy Huff reflects on her time in the Office of Nuclear Energy
After three years in the Department of Energy, including two as assistant secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Katy Huff stepped down in May to return to the world of academia as a professor at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.
Among her many accomplishments while serving as NE-1, Huff pushed for energy security—both at home and abroad, in places like war-torn Ukraine—and for the development of additional advanced and traditional nuclear plants, the potential restart of shuttered nuclear facilities, and a better funding stream for college nuclear programs.
Alexey Stankovsky, Masaki Saito, Vladimir V. Artissiouk, Anatoly N. Shmelev, Hiroshi Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 4 | June 2003 | Pages 569-579
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A302
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In view of the poor transmutation environments in fission reactors, elimination of long-lived fission products (FPs) remains an unresolved problem in the quest for a harmonized nuclear energy system. Since plasma fusion technology could provide effective neutron support, it is important to elaborate the qualities, features, and dimensions of a fusion neutron source exclusively oriented to FP transmutation, and this forms the main objective of this paper. Recent trends in fusion technology are examined to shape the conceptual blanket design features for D-T- and D-D-driven transmuters that match the demanding set of transmutation requirements. Material behavior under neutron irradiation in these blankets constitutes the central issue underlying this paper and yields the operational limits and radiological cost of FP incineration.