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DOE, INL, Kairos talk nuclear energy at Senate committee hearing
It has been 10 months since President Trump signed several executive orders that have reshaped the nuclear energy industry and set lofty goals for initiatives like the development and deployment of new nuclear technology.
One such initiative, the DOE’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, calls for at least 3 of the 11 reactors in the program to achieve criticality by July 4, 2026. Some have questioned whether this target is feasible.
M.C. Perrin, D.E. Ruester, B.A. Cramer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 592-595
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40103
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A non-linear, inelastic stress analysis code, developed at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (MDAC), was modified to incorporate irradiation effects in the analysis of stress histories within fusion reactor structural components. This code calculates stresses and strains due to temperature gradients, thermal creep, irradiation creep, and differential swelling as a function of neutron wall load and fluence.