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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 486-490
Plasma Engineering - Fueling and Diagnostics | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST60-486
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Visco-plastic flow properties of hydrogenic solids are important considerations for the design and operation of continuous hydrogenic pellet extrusion systems. Prior to 2010, the visco-plastic flow behavior of deuterium, tritium, and mixtures of the isotopes was only known at 14 K and no heat transfer studies were available. To address these needs, a Cryogenic Couette Viscometer (CCV) was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Visco-plastic flow characteristics of solid neon, deuterium, and hydrogen were measured using the CCV from the onset of solidification to sub-cooled solid states over a range of shear rates. This paper discusses the transformation of these measurements, using the Quantum Law of Corresponding States, to predict the visco-plastic flow behavior of solid tritium and deuterium-tritium mixtures. Comparisons of predicted values with experimental measurements are made, where available.
