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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
Gerald L. Kulcinski, John F. Santarius
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 480-485
Alternate and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963282
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
It is shown that the long-range goal of the world fusion program can be to generate energy without long-lived radioactive waste and the associated safety problems that accompany today's nuclear power sources. This can ultimately be accomplished through the 3He-based fusion fuel cycles. This paper compares 3He-based fusion fuels with first-generation, D-based fusion fuels and fission. Potential applications of 3He fusion to radioisotope generation, proliferation-resistant electrical power plants, and space propulsion are also discussed.
