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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.
Dan Gabriel Cepraga, Gilio Cambi, Manuela Frisoni, Franca Carloni
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 691-696
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963695
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Decay heat plays an important role in fusion plant safety. To validate the codes, data and calculation procedures used in decay heat prediction, an international benchmark exercise was launched. The calculated results have been compared with experimental ones, obtained from a series of experiments performed using the Fusion Neutronics Source (FNS) at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai, Japan. This paper presents the decay heat results for two of the most relevant fusion-related materials, the AISI 316 steel and the copper samples, obtained using the ENEA activation code ANITA-4/F and discuss their comparison with the experimental ones.
