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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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State legislation: Delaware delving into nuclear energy possibilities
A bill that would create a nuclear energy task force in Delaware has passed the state Senate and is now being considered in the House of Representatives.
Eckhard R. Rebhan, Guido Van Oost
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 16-26
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Introduction | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1100
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
After about 50 years of fusion research the time has arrived when fusion processes in experimental plasmas are increasingly getting important. In JET the genuine fuel of a fusion reactor was used for the first time in late 1991, in TFTR the same happened in 1993, and in JET an extended period of experiments of this kind was performed in 1997. Therefore, it is getting more and more rewarding to deal with the problems related to the ignition and burning of plasmas.
