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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Masahiko Utsuro, Mitsuo Nakai, Hideki Kohri, Takeshi Ohta, Takumi Konno, Asako Igashira, Mamoru Fujiwara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 7 | October 2022 | Pages 513-527
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2062098
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A test experiment to polarize tritium nuclei to develop a polarized deuterium-tritium (D-T) laser fusion concept is proposed in which a ferromagnetic complex with a high internal magnetic field is used to polarize tritium nuclei on physisorbed D-T molecules with an internal β-decay heat load in a D-T target. Heteronuclear hydrogen deuteride (HD) is used to conduct the measurements herein instead of as in typical D-T–based experiments. As proof-of-concept experimentation, the adsorption and desorption characteristics of HD are examined on Prussian blue ferromagnetic analogue Ni3[Fe(CN)6]2 at temperatures of 77 K and around 23 K. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of the ferromagnetic complex-mediated adsorption of HD onto activated carbon pellets at 10 K is conducted step by step using a multilocular probe cell that had been simplified to give a single-tube probe cell. The resulting 1H NMR spectra are compared with 19F NMR spectra obtained for reference on a Kel-F probe cell wall. Slight differences between the calculated NMR frequency from the gyromagnetic ratio and the actually observed NMR frequency are also discussed.