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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).”
Rasol Khoda-Bakhsh, Heinrich Horat†, George H. Miley, Robert J. Stening, Peter Pieruschka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 1 | August 1992 | Pages 50-55
Technical Paper | D-3He/Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30053
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The realization of an ideal volume compression of laser-irradiated fusion pellets opens the possibility for an alternative to spark ignition; this has been proposed for many years for inertial confinement fusion. Using a detailed volume ignition computation of sources of reheat in deuterium-deuterium (D-D) reactions (alpha, proton, and tritium reheat), the result of the calculations show that D-D pellets can be utilized in the same way as in the deuterium-tritium reaction if higher compression can be achieved. Fusion gains of more than 80 are obtained with an initial temperature of only ∼3.0 keV, input energies close to 2.4 GJ, and initial compression at 30 000 times the solid-state density.