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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 213-217
Divertor & High Heat Flux Components | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12354
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The current T-tube divertor design consists of modular helium cooled units. The individual units consist of a steel inner cartridge enclosed in a tungsten alloy outer structure. On top of the outer tube is a layer of pure tungsten armor. Past design and analysis of the T-tube divertor concept has shown that it can accommodate a heat flux up to 10MW/m2. With recent concerns that steady state or transient heat fluxes may be higher than this in the divertor region, the T-tube concept was modified so that it may accommodate higher heat fluxes.