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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).”
Yoshiaki Kazawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1583-1589
Fusion Economic | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24958
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The author proposes and defines “the figure of merit of fusion reactor” F which can indicate the economics of fusion reactor comparatively simply and easily by using every important evaluation factor. An attempt to express it synthetically in a numerical formula as to magnetic confined fusion reactor is made. By means of this evaluation formula F, some evaluation studies are carried out for each type of conceptually designed commercial reactors whose design data have been reported. The result is that Heliotron is the best, Tokamak the second, and Tandem Mirror the third.