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Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding
A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to universities for the indirect costs of research under DOE grants. The group filed suit Monday, April 14, challenging a what it termed a “flagrantly unlawful action” that could “devastate scientific research at America’s universities.”
By Wednesday, the U.S. District Court judge hearing the case issued a temporary restraining order effective nationwide, preventing the DOE from implementing the policy or terminating any existing grants.
Jose M. Martinez-Val, Mireia Piera
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | August 1997 | Pages 131-151
Technical Paper | ICF Target | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A19885
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A totally new target scheme to exploit fusion reactions is presented. It is based on the propagation of a heat-detonation wave across the fuel that reaches fusion temperatures before expanding. The wave is launched from a small region of the target where fusion ignition temperatures are reached by the crash of cumulation jets. These jets are produced by a couple of hollow-charge conical liners placed close to the target. The collapse of each conical liner creates a dispersive supersonic jet with a specific kinetic energy high enough to ignite the small region of the target where the fusion wave is created. The energy gain can be very high, although it depends on the maximum fusion yield allowable in the reactor chamber.