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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.
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Larry R. Grisham, Douglass E. Post, David R. Mikkelsen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 1 | January 1983 | Pages 121-128
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20822
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We discuss a method of probing the velocity distribution of confined energetic alpha particles resulting from deuterium-tritium fusion reactions in a magnetically contained plasma. We calculate the characteristics of the signals to be expected from injecting multi-MeV Li° into the plasma to undergo double charge-exchange reactions with the alpha particles. Neutralized alpha particles then escape from the plasma to be detected by a charge-exchange analyzer. We also examine the feasibility of producing a Li° beam of the required current and energy, and we discuss a conceptual design for an appropriate beam system.