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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Pacific Fusion predicts “1,000-fold leap” in performance, net facility gain by 2030
Inertial fusion energy (IFE) developer Pacific Fusion, based in Fremont, Calif., announced this morning that it is on target to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all energy stored in the system—with a demonstration system by 2030, and backs the claim with a technical paper published yesterday on arXiv: “Affordable, manageable, practical, and scalable (AMPS) high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion.”
Larry L. Hench
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | May 1986 | Pages 188-198
Technical Paper | Performance of Borosilicate Glass High-Level Waste Forms in Disposal System / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33783
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A number of collaborative research projects between Belgium, Canada, France, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and the Federal Republic of Germany are now in progress to test the relative surface reactions of nuclear waste glasses under a wide variety of simulated repository conditions. The studies include 1-, 3-, 6-, 12-, 24-, and 32-month deep burial in granite boreholes in the Stripa mine in Sweden at 90 and 10°C. Nearly 2000 interactive interfaces are being studied in salt in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in the United States. Several glasses from these tests are also being evaluated in clay in Belgium. Comparisons of the simulated burial conditions with glasses containing radioactivity close to that expected for commercial operations at LaHague, France, are being made by a Japan-Sweden-Switzerland consortium with collaboration from the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Marcoule and the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin. These studies are leading toward an international consensus on the relative performance of high-level waste forms including borosilicate glasses, waste packages, and repository variables.