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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Akio Sagara, Yasuji Kozaki, Masahiro Tanaka, Takuya Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 3-10
Plenary | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-348
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After reasonably long-term scientific efforts, the time is coming for steady-state burning plasma in the operation of the ITER, and complementary research on other large-scale devices. For fusion energy reactors, however, the realization of steady-state burning plasma is not a goal for fusion technology development. Rather, we finally initiated fusion technology development aimed at establishing a steady-state burning system and steady-state fuel supply. This paper discusses strategies for these two issues, based on history and present knowledge.