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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.
Hideo Kozima, Masayuki Ohta, Mitsutaka Fujii, Kunihito Arai, Hitoshi Kudoh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 86-90
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A183
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experimental data showing generation of 4He from a Pd sheet-D2 gas system observed by E. Botta et al. are analyzed by the trapped neutron catalyzed fusion (TNCF) model. The proposed mechanism of 4He generation is not the direct d-d reaction but the reactions between the trapped neutron and a Pd isotope, n-46APd reactions, with a supplemental assumption, decrease of threshold energies for (n,) reactions of 46APd in solids. The arbitrary parameter nn, the density of the trapped neutron, of the model is determined to be ~1012 cm-3, which is consistent with values determined in analyses of data in various events in the cold fusion phenomenon.