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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.J. Watrous, R.E. Olson, D.L. Cook
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1895-1900
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40038
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The Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility (TDF) is expected to test approximately ten targets per day having yields in the 50 to 800 MJ range. This large number of high yield micro-explosions creates design problems in the TDF that are not present in PBFA-I and PBFA-II. The TDF would be the first light ion facility where radioactivity in the target debris and induced in the facility itself constitute a biological hazard. It must have a first wall and a target diagnostics package that can survive repeated mechanical and thermal pulses from the target microexplosions. In addition, the repetition rate is much higher than for present day light ion beam drivers. A preliminary conceptual design for the TDF including a reaction chamber, biological shield, target diagnostics package and driver that addresses these and other problems is presented.