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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.
Osvaldo Fiorella, Manlio Mangia, Elio Oliveri
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 2 | May 1983 | Pages 353-361
Technical Paper | Second International RETRAN Meeting / Radioisotopes and Isotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33203
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Optimal step assays and interstage up-flow rates for enriching and stripping sections of uranium gaseous diffusion squared-off cascades are manageably determined without any additional approximations beyond the usual ones (i.e., a close separation process and a constant cut in the whole section). This is accomplished by the application of the optimization conditions to the function to be minimized, i.e., the total up-flow rate, still expressed in integral form. The use of suitable dimensionless variables allows quick evaluations of the optimal parameters of any plant, provided that the product and waste assays range from 1 to 99% and from 0.05 to 0.65%, respectively, and that the number of enriching and stripping steps be, at most, seven and four, respectively. The results are consistent with those available in the literature; in particular, it is confirmed that, for low and intermediate product assays, a number of enriching steps higher than five is unnecessary in most cases.