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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
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Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
Kenji Sumita, Akito Takahashi, Toshiyuki Iida, Junji Yamamoto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 249-265
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29054
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OKTAVIAN I was built at Osaka University and has been operated since 1981 as an intense deuterium-tritium (D-T) neutron source at 1.5-ns pulses of 103 D-T neutron/pulse or as a continuous neutron source of 3 × 1012 D-T neutron/s at maximum. This national facility has been devoted mainly to studies on fusion neutron-related subjects by university researchers nationwide and has also served for international collaborations. Annual operating time is usually >1000 h for neutron supply with no special maintenance difficulties. OKTAVIAN consists of a high-current deuteron beam accelerator with some special provisions for maintaining a high D+ atomic ratio for D-T neutron production, highly effective water-cooled rotating solid Ti-T targets for continuous neutron supply, and a nanosecond intense pulse beam supply system with a small air-cooled solid Ti-T target. Special care has been taken to prevent the spread of tritium contamination in- and outside of the facility. Many fusion neutronics experiments have been carried out for the fundamental study of D-T fusion neutron transport characteristics. They have served to improve the evaluated nuclear data files and to test the calculational methods for fusion reactor design, e.g., a series of double-differential cross-section measurements of fusion material by pulsed operation and tritium breeding ratio measurements using a 120-cm natural lithium metal sphere by pulsed or continuous beam operation. OKTAVIAN has been also used for neutron irradiation using continuous D-T neutrons. Several D-T neutron damage experiments have been performed for optical and electronic instruments and components for fusion engineering. The OKTAVIAN-II project, which proposes to supply ∼20 times more intense D-T neutrons than the present facility, is under investigation. Design studies have been carried out, and a series of bench-test experiments is in preparation.