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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.
D. M. Haas, H. Huang, A. Q. L. Nguyen, K. Sequoia, R. B. Stephens, A. Nikroo, N. Antipa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | March-April 2013 | Pages 160-168
Technical Paper | Selected papers from 20th Target Fabrication Meeting, May 20-24, 2012, Santa Fe, NM, Guest Editor: Robert C. Cook | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-TFM20-30
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CH capsules, produced through glow discharge plasma coating, routinely suffer from surface defects including domes with gradually sloping sides and dust particles with sharp edges. Surface defects seed instabilities during implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility and lead to radial jets, which increase mixing at the center of the implosion hindering the shell compression. Avoiding such defects requires characterizing the entire shell surface. In addition, the global position of the defects must be recorded in order to coordinate shot results with the initial surface perturbations. Further work was done to enable side-by-side comparison with optically acquired images to aid in capsule surface inspection throughout the capsule production process.