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The Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) has awarded three fiscal year 2026 vouchers to support the development of advanced nuclear technologies. Each company will get access to specific capabilities and expertise in the DOE’s national laboratory complex—in this round of awards both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory are named—and will be responsible for a minimum 20 percent cost share, which can be an in-kind contribution.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | July 2000 | Pages 139-142
Technical Paper | Thirteenth Target Fabrication Specialists’ Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A36131
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Current techniques used for the production of individual hohlraum components require single-point ultra-precision machining. In an effort to reduce cost and time, mass-production techniques adopted from the Microelectronics sector have been developed. These Microengineering processes will allow a variety of materials to be investigated with various geometrical features and surface topographies. Using thick photosensitive polymers, combined with electroplating processes, complex 3-D structures can be fabricated in multiple stages. In this review the production of a hohlraum end-cap used for indirect inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is presented as an example of this procedure.