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Bipartisan commission report urges national fusion strategy
In the report Fusion Forward: Powering America’s Future issued earlier this month by the Special Competitive Studies Project’s (SCSP) Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy, it warns that the United States is on the verge of losing the fusion power race to China.
Noting that China has invested at least $6.5 billion in its fusion enterprise since 2023, almost three times the funding received by the U.S. Department of Energy’s fusion program over the same period, the commission report urges the U.S. government to prioritize the rapid commercialization of fusion energy to secure U.S. national security and restore American energy leadership.
SCSP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit initiative making recommendations to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness in emerging technologies. Launched in fall 2024, the 13-member commission is led by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) and Jim Risch (R., Idaho), along with SCSP president and commission co-chair Ylli Bajraktari.
Y. M. Farawila, S. I. Abdel-Khalik
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 288-295
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23728
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Conversion ratios reported for the Sandia National Laboratories intermediate-scale (FITS-B series) steam explosion experiments have been examined and recalculated. It is shown that these conversion ratios corresponding to the work done to compress the chamber air, ηD, may have been overestimated by as much as a factor of 8.3. The recalculated values of ηD range from 0.05 to 1.04% compared with reported values of 0.2 to 8.6%. The corresponding maximum value for the total fraction of melt thermal energy converted to both kinetic energy and compression work, ηtot = ηKE + ηD, is 2.34% compared to a reported value of 9.9%.
