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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
S. G. Lie, A. A. Harms, K. F. Schoepf*
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 2 | March 1983 | Pages 186-194
Technical Paper | Special Section Content / Fusion Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20838
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The branching processes involving all first-generation progeny reaction products of deuterium-based fusion systems are investigated. It is shown that a generalized formulation of various deuterium-deuterium burn modes can be specified and explicit expressions for the extent of branching established. Specific branching ratios and selected associated rate expressions are evaluated for the case of catalyzed fusion modes sustained for steady-state burn by appropriate ion seeding.
