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DOE awards $59.7 million for university nuclear R&D in 2024; $1 billion in 15 years
The Office of Nuclear Energy is awarding $59.7 million to 25 U.S. colleges and universities, two national laboratories, and one industry organization to support nuclear energy research and development and provide access to world-class research facilities, the Department of Energy announced on April 15.
Akio Sagara, Osamu Motojima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1167-1173
Alternative and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963771
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Collaboration work based on the LHD project has made great progress in design studies on the helical reactor FFHR. The main feature of FFHR is force-free-like configuration of helical coils, which simplifies the coil supporting structure with a high magnetic field instead of high plasma beta. The other feature is the selection of molten-salt Flibe as a self-cooling tritium breeder for the main reason of inherent safety. Encouraging positive results are shown on ignition access, mechanical stress in coils supporting structures, improvement in the blanket system including materials selection and tritium recovery. Critical issues and many subjects are mentioned as future work.