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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.
Fumiaki Yaguchi et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 253-255
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11626
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In magnetic nuclear fusion plasmas, plasma particle transport causes the decrease of density and stored energy. Plasma particle and thermal energy are lost across the confinement magnetic field lines by the turbulence of thermodynamics force and instability. We studied the characteristics of flute-type fluctuation by using the gold neutral beam probe (GNBP) and electrostatic probes.
