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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.
Y. Nakao, N. Senmyo, N. Nakamura, H. Matsuura, T. Johzaki, V. T. Voronchev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 391-394
IFE Target Design | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8932
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A new method to diagnose the degree of electron degeneracy in compressed fuel for fast-ignition inertial confinement fusion is proposed. We focus on 4.44-MeV -rays emitted in the reaction 9Be(,n)12C governed by fusion-produced energetic alpha-particles in a laser-imploded DT fuel pellet admixed with a small amount of 9B. In this case the compressed fuel pellet is not subjected to any heating laser pulse. We have evaluated the probability P-Be that the + 9Be reaction occurs during the slowing down of -particle. It is found that the reaction probability depends strongly on the degeneracy parameter , which is defined as the ratio of electron temperature to the Fermi energy. We show the possibility of diagnosing the electron degeneracy from the P-Be - diagram by detecting the 4.44-MeV -quanta and DT neutrons emitted from the dense core plasma.
