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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.
Xiang M. Chen, Virgil E. Schrock, Per F. Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 912-916
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor, Reactor Target, and Driver | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40270
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HYLIFE-II reactor uses molten salt Flibe as the liquid blanket material. The property of its gaseous state was poorly known for gas dynamics calculations and other design problems. This study presents two fitted equations of state of the Flibe gas to meet the needs. The fitted range covers both dissociation and ionization regions. The methods used for fitting allow good agreement between the calculated data and fitted equations.
