ICTP Colloquium 13 August 2009

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*ICTP COLLOQUIUM*

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*16:00, Thursday, 13 August 2009*

*Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building*

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*Professor Swadesh Mahajan*

*Institute for Fusion Studies*

*University of Texas at Austin*

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*Fusion-Fission Hybrids---Maturing of an Old Idea*

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The idea of a fusion-fission hybrid, a marriage of two complicated 
technologies, is just about beginning to attain maturity at a 
pre-engineering, conceptual architectural level. The motivation comes 
from a desire to precipitate possible rejuvenation of nuclear fission 
energy---the only tried and tested non-carbon energy source that could 
be rapidly ramped up to meet the global warming challenge.

 

Three major ideas spanning both fusion and fission, building on the 
impressive achievements of world-wide fusion research, and that have 
gone into the making of the University of Texas Scientific-Architectural 
Plan (UTSAP) for a Hybrid will be motivated and presented.

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