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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.
Y. Maeda, Y. Edao, S. Yamaguchi, S. Fukada
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 2008 | Pages 131-134
Technical Paper | Blanket Design | doi.org/10.13182/FST54-131
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The diffusion, solution and permeation coefficients of hydrogen isotopes in liquid Li-Pb which is a candidate liquid blanket material for fusion reactors were determined in the temperature range 573-973K using an unsteady permeation method. Each coefficiens was correlated to temperature as follows:DLi-Pb = 1.8 × 10-8 exp(-11590/RT) [m2/s] (1)KLi-Pb = 2.1 × 10-6 exp(-18700/RT) [1/Pa0.5] (2)PLi-Pb = 1.8 × 10-9 exp(-30290/RT) [mol/msPa0.5] (3)The hydrogen permeation flux depends on the square root of pressure at 773-973K. Although the power of pressure declined below 0.4 when temperature was below 673K, the effects of surface resistance were neglected above 673K.The hydrogen solubility in liquid Li-Pbwas found to correlate with a Sievert's constant.We calculated a height-equivalent to theoretical-plate of a gas-liquid countercurrent extraction tower for tritium recovery rates in liquid Li-Pb to beHL = 7.0 × 10-2 [m] (4)
