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Lightbridge announces first U-Zr fuel rod samples extruded at INL
Lightbridge Corporation announced today that it has reached “a critical milestone” in the development of its extruded solid fuel technology. Coupon samples using an alloy of zirconium and depleted uranium—not the high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) that Lightbridge plans to use to manufacture its fuel for the commercial market—were extruded at Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex.
R. Minami et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 244-246
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11623
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High power electron cyclotron heating (ECH) experiment for the central-cell region in GAMMA 10 has been started in the hot ion mode operation (Ti = several keV). Transmission system for the central-cell ECH, including a taper, mirrors and polarizers, has been designed and installed for efficient direct bulk electron heating. ECH system with a twister and a circular polarizer for central-cell region has the advantages for controllable polarization of incident wave. Recently, a high power gyrotron of ~500 kW at 28 GHz has been developed in collaboration with Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and this high power gyrotron was installed in central-cell region of GAMMA 10. This high power and efficient ECH system was applied to central-cell electron heating and significant increment of soft X-ray and diamagnetism signals during a pulse of ECH operation was obtained. In this paper, central ECH experimental results in the hot ion mode operation are reported.