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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.
S.A. Freije, D.M. Goebel, L.J. Perkins, G.W. Hamilton, J.D. Fink
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1401-1406
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23052
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The conceptual designs of the supplemental heating systems for a tenth of a kind, commercial tandem mirror reactor have been developed. A high power ECRH system at 60GHz maintains the thermal barrier in each endcell and a second low power system at 71GHz increases the magnitude of the potential peak. The sloshing ion distribution in the plug is produced by a 475KeV negative ion neutral beam. An ICRH system provides a hot plasma in the anchor region for pressure weighting of the geodesic curvature, thus ensuring stability.