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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.
J. F. Latkowski, W. R. Meier
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 798-803
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963337
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At the Thirteenth International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion (HIF Symposium), we presented magnet shielding calculations for 72-, 128, 200, and 288-beam versions of the HYLIFE-II power plant design.1,2 In all cases, we found the radiation-limited lifetimes of the last set of final focusing magnets to be unacceptably short.1 Since that time, we have completed follow-on calculations to improve the lifetime of the 72-beam case. Using a self-consistent final focusing model, we vary parameters such as the shielding thicknesses and compositions, focusing length, angle-of-attack to the target, and the geometric representation of the flibe pocket, chamber, and blanket. By combining many of these shielding features, we demonstrate a shielding design that would enable the last set of final focusing magnets to survive for the lifetime of the power plant.
