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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.
André L. Rogister
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 309-318
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Transport | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1130
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Experts consider that the enhanced transport observed in fusion devices is the consequence of low frequency instabilities which are elongated along the magnetic field lines and whose free energy sources are the gradients inherent to confinement. The cases k