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State legislation: Delaware delving into nuclear energy possibilities
A bill that would create a nuclear energy task force in Delaware has passed the state Senate and is now being considered in the House of Representatives.
Douglas Faith, Wigen Nazarov, Colin Horsfield
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 90-94
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A433
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An overview on the development, production and the necessary characterisation of particulate loaded lowdensity polymer foams are described. The techniques used for the characterisation of the polymer foams, Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscopy (LVSEM), Point Projection Microradiography and White light Interferometry, will be detailed along with a discussion on the foam production and development techniques.
