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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.
P. Norajitra, M. Richou, L. Spatafora
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 134-138
PFC and FW Materials Technology | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14125
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A helium-cooled divertor concept for DEMO, which is currently being developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, uses a modular structure of tungsten 9-finger units composed of smaller individual one-finger modules. As the development of the 1-finger design is so far advanced, the work currently focuses on the manufacturing technology of a larger unit, the 9-finger module. The requirements for a larger grouping of individual cooling fingers are associated with the three-dimensional dimensions and orientations of all components in the assembly; their inaccuracy will affect the He flow distribution and cooling capacity of the divertor. In this paper, the necessary production steps, the order of assembly, and the principle of SATIR non destructive examination are described, as a result of a technological study.