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DOE launches UPRISE to boost nuclear capacity
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has launched a new initiative to meet the government’s goal of increasing U.S. nuclear energy capacity by boosting the power output of existing nuclear reactors through uprates and restarts and by completing stalled reactor projects.
UPRISE, the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort, managed by Idaho National Laboratory, is to “deliver immediate results that will accelerate nuclear power growth and foster innovation to address the nation’s urgent energy needs,” DOE-NE said in its announcement.
V.I. Volosov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 258-262
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963863
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Practically all the fusion projects discussed and investigated up to now are the demonstrative projects or devices. The main goal is to show that Qα can be of the order of unity or more. But some other problems of future thermonuclear reactor are delayed to the far future, or ignored. Among these problems is a alpha- particles problem which partially was investigated as the problem of ITER.1–6 Some aspects of this problem related to the fusion reactor are discussed below.
