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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.
S. Sakakibara, K. Y. Watanabe, S. Ohdachi, Y. Narushima, K. Toi, K. Tanaka, K. Narihara, K. Ida, T. Tokuzawa, K. Kawahata, H. Yamada, A. Komori, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 176-185
Chapter 4. MHD | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10804
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This paper reviews progress in the study of pressure-driven interchange stability in the Large Helical Device (LHD) for 10 years. When the plasma approaches the boundary of ideal interchange mode, a strong magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mode appears, leading to a distortion of pressure profile, although no major disruption is caused. The experiments for investigating magnetic shear effects in the magnetic hill configuration indicate that the reduction of magnetic shear leads to a minor collapse due to an excitation of low-order MHD mode. In the high-beta regime of more than 4%, MHD modes excited in the periphery with magnetic hill are observed to dominate, and it was found that the amplitude depends on the magnetic Reynolds number as well as the pressure gradient, which is qualitatively consistent with the prediction of resistive interchange mode. Also, experiments and theory for finding parameter dependence of the onset of the mode indicate that the onset is related to both the magnetic Reynolds number and the stability index of resistive interchange mode.