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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Daren P. Stotler, Neil Pomphrey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 577-587
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29194
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A time-dependent zero-dimensional code has been developed to assess the pulse length and auxiliary heating requirements of Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) designs. By taking a global approach to the calculation, parametric studies can be easily performed. The accuracy of the procedure is tested by comparison with the Tokamak Simulation Code, which uses theory-based thermal diffusivities, A series of runs is carried out at various levels of energy confinement for each of three possible CIT configurations. It is found that for cases of interest ignition or an energy multiplication factor Q ≳ 7 can be attained within the first half of the planned 5-s flattop with 10 to 40 MW of auxiliary heating. These results are supported by analytic calculations.