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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. Phillip Sharpe, Philippe Chappuis, David A. Petti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1061-1065
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963384
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Tokamak dust, the particulate matter generated during operation of a tokamak fusion device, was collected from Tore Supra in December 1999, during the initial phase of the scheduled shutdown for installation of advanced plasma facing components. Surface mass densities of material collected from locations with measured surface area are 1100 mg/m2 at the vessel bottom and 15 mg/m2 on average for all other locations. The specific surface area of dust collected from several locations is nearly uniform with an average value of 1.32 g/m2. Geometric mean diameters of samples from different locations have an average value of 3.0 μm, although geometric standard deviations vary from 1.93 to 4.03. The dust is composed of various quantities of carbon, iron, nickel, silicon, and chromium, among other trace elements.
