(CO sub 2 -containment strategies)

Technical Report · Wed Aug 08 04:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6712398· OSTI ID:6712398

Fulkerson, W

This trip was partially paid for by Resources for the Future to obtain Dr. Fulkerson's participation in a conference in Tokyo considering the issue of international agreements between nations on controlling CO{sub 2} emissions. The traveler also visited the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute's JT-60 site at Naka-machi, the National Institute for Fusion Science of Monbusho at the University of Nagoya, and the Maekawa Electric Steel Casting Company, Ltd. (MESCO) at Osaka. Japan is taking the global climate issue most seriously, and that interest is reflected already in official energy projections by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the New Earth 21 vision of an ecological sustainable world. MITI's focus is on better energy technologies, and the institutions for promoting adoption of that ecological sustainable world. Construction of JT-60 is headed for operation in March of 1991, and Japan is pushing a neutron source for fusion called the Energy Selective Neutron Irradiation Test Facility to be built at the Oarai site where the 30-MW HTGR for process heat will also be built. The funding for the Large Helical Device has been approved and work is in progress at the new Toki site. Collaboration with ORNL on ATF steady-state operation has been officially proposed, but funding is not yet approved. MESCO is a foundry making high-quality, specialized steel castings in Osaka and Kyushu. They have a joint venture with China to transfer Japanese skills. 28 refs., 4 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6712398
• Report Number(s): ORNL/FTR-3694; ON: DE90015378
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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