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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
William B. Thompson, Siebe Jorna
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 416-431
Technical Paper | ICF Driver Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20865
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We analyzed several properties of an electron neutralized light ion beam that is radially and longitudinally collapsing as it propagates through a diffuse background gas. Considerations of both equilibrium and stability suggest that if such a beam can be produced with an initial effective emittance of ∼2 × 10−4 cm⋅rad, and is neutralized to one part in 106, then it could be propagated through a background pressure of order 10−5 Torr, compressed by a factor of 2 − 105, and deliver of order 1013 W/cm2 on a 0.1-cm-radius target; hence, it could form an economical driver for a pellet fusion system.
