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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Hirofumi Takashita, Kenji Konashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 24 | Number 3 | November 1993 | Pages 269-276
Technical Paper | ICF Target | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30201
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Transmutation of 90Sr by inertial confinement fusion is discussed. A pellet composed of deuteriumtritium fuel surrounded by 90Sr is compressed by a laser or a particle beam. It is shown that a high transmutation rate and a small transmutation energy are obtained because of the highly compressed 90Sr, which has a large probability of a transmutation reaction. The number of cycles, including recovering and refabrication of the target, is also discussed.
