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Specialists at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute, working on the development of a fusion-fission hybrid power plant, have completed its preliminary design.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 18 December 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsthe-kurchatov-institute-completes-hybrid-power-plant-design-8416277
Experimental and theoretical research has shown 'spherical' tokamaks to be a "fast route to fusion" compared with more "conventional" tokamak devices such as Joint European Torus (JET), according to David Kingham, chief executive of Tokamak Energy.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 30 January 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Spherical-tokamak-to-put-fusion-power-in-grid-by-2
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has an ongoing need for a wide variety of very complex targets for ICF and related HEDP experiments. ICF/HEDP targets are complex, multi-component, systems often employing specialized materials. Typical components in a target are plastics, metals, alloys, low density foams, and cryogenically cooled hydrogen, deuterium, and/or tritium. Most targets are custom built to precise specifications: They have dimensions of only a few mm, require tolerances of a hundred nano-meters or better, and in some cases need control of impurities and/or dopants to less than a tenth of a percent. Equally important are the advanced techniques to characterize the targets to the same precision. Although suitable characterization and fabrication techniques have been developed to meet many of these requirements, there is an ongoing need to develop more advanced techniques that can provide greater precision, more control, or more efficiency, e.g. lower costs. The central motivation for this solicitation is to receive proposals in these areas, both from within and external to the traditional target fabrication community. Note that this solicitation is only for developing new process and characterization techniques. Delivery of targets for the ICF program will be carried out by other procurements.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 November 2010
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsspecialist-targets-usa-pre-tender-information