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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
Vladislav Adamík
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | December 1979 | Pages 369-377
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Presented at the ENS/ANS International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, October 16–19, 1978) / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32341
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A theoretical study of reinforced concrete structure behavior under missile impact loading has been performed. The study was limited to cylindrical geometry and only to nondeformable missiles with a flat front nose. The finite difference Lagrangian code, which is based on crack propagation theory, has been elaborated and verified for experiments with rigid missile impact on reinforced slabs. For the initial time interval after the impact, there is good agreement between theory and experiment, not only for local quantities but also with respect to the structural response of the whole target.