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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.
Hidefumi Yamaura, Toshiki Takahashi, Yoshiomi Kondoh, Tomohiko Asai, Tsutomu Takahashi (19P59)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 373-375
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1406
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Rotation of a Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma due to a resistive flux decay is numerically studied. When the anomaly factor is 10, the flux lifetime is found to be about 60 sec in a case that the external magnetic field is O.4 T and the wall radius is 0.17 m. Single-particle motions in a quasi-steady resistively decaying FRC equilibrium are calculated, and a local flow velocity is estimated by a particle-in-cell method. An electric acceleration of a betatron particle near the field-null is shown; this can cause a plasma rotation. From a comparison of the toroidal ion flow velocity profile between with and without the flux decay, it is found that the ion rotation begins at the field-null.