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NRC holds public hearing on proposed Palisades restart
Dozens gathered last week at a public hearing hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to get feedback on the proposal to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan.
The NRC is beginning its environmental review of plans to repower Palisades after it was shut down in May 2022 and was headed for permanent decommissioning. If the restart is successful, this would be the first return to service of a shuttered U.S. nuclear plant.
H. Homma, H. Kadota, H. Hosokawa, M. Nagata, T. Fujimura, K. Nagai, M. Nakai, T. Norimatsu, H. Azechi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 276-278
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11537
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Recent developments of several key issues for fabrication techniques of cone and shell target for the first phase of the Fast Ignition Realization Experiment (FIREX-I) project at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, are described in this paper. The most important modification of the target design is a double cone, and a new fabrication technique has been developed. Although the error of assembling the cones is still several microns, the first prototype of a double-cone target with a vacuum gap of 20 m was successfully provided for the preliminary experiment. Additionally, Ti:sapphire laser machining was used to bore a hole in the polystyrene shell.