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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.
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A. V. Anikeev, R. Dagan, U. Fischer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 162-165
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-1T5
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper presents a 3D numerical model of the neutron source for the transmutation of long-lived radioactive waste in spent nuclear fuel. The projected plasma type neutron source is based on the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) which is a special magnetic mirror system for the plasma confinement. A new improved version of the GDT type fusion neutron source is numerically simulated by use different numerical methods. New physical phenomena such as a vortex confinement, improved axial confinement, low radial transport, high etc. were included in these simulations. The experimental and theoretical foundations of these phenomena were obtained in the GDT-U experimental facility in the Budker Institute. In result the proposed neutron source has two n-zones of 2 m length with a neutron power of 1.6 MW/m and a neutron production rate up to 1.5x1018 n/s each. This source can be used for application to a fusion driven system for the burning of MA in spent nuclear fuel.