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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
According to INL, projects selected include reactor development and nuclear fuel cycle advancements, including fabrication, enrichment, and conversion technologies.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) SPeaker
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Robert Freda is a designer and technologist. He co-founded clean energy hydroelectric start-up, GenH. He is an MIT research affiliate with CANES and former creative director at Polo Ralph Lauren. Robert has won national awards in design (CFDA Men's, Pratt NTS Architecture) and holds multiple patents in energy generation technologies and associated systems. He has contributed to state of the art in n-dimensional matrix analysis & compression and momentum theory for fluid energy extraction in confined channels. Rob has published in the art on fluid dynamics, best practice market strategies, and system architectures for IPTV/wireless converged networks. He has been the designer for scale ($2+ billion) business units and built new brands in luxury markets. His area of expertise in energy systems is modular systems' techno-economic design, its application to nuclear energy and redesigned renewable energy in combined systems, and its competitive advantage in market, risk, and socio-economic dimensions.
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