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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.
G. Kuang, J. Shan, W. Xu, Q. Zhang, Y. Liu, D. Liu, F. Liu, J. Lin, G. Zheng, J. Wu, W. Zhu, B. Ding, L. Shang, H. Xu, C. Yang, Y. Zhou, Y. Fang, J. Xie, Y. Wan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 36 | Number 2 | September 1999 | Pages 212-218
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A103
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A lower hybrid current drive system has been built for the HT-7 superconductive tokamak to deliver a 1.2-MW microwave at a frequency of 2.45 GHz for a pulse length of up to 5 s. Twelve klystron amplifiers are used as wave generators, each generating a 100-kW (130 kW at maximum) microwave. A grill coupler composed of 2 x 12 waveguides is used to launch the waves from the 12 klystrons. The wave phase difference between the adjacent waveguides in either row of the grill can be set at any desired value by feedback controlling the digital phase shifters in the low-power microwave circuits in front of the klystrons. The 12 klystrons are fed by two equal high-voltage power supplies. The technical reliability of the system is shown by experimental results.