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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.
J. J. Schuss, M. Porkolab, D. Griffin, S. Barilovits, M. Besen, C. Bredin, G. Chihoski, H. Israel, N. Pierce, D. Reiser, K. Rice
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1413-1417
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23054
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We describe here the RF system currently installed on Alcator C that is being used to inject in excess of 1 MW of net RF power into the tokamak plasma during lower hybrid heating and current drive studies. This system provides for RF power and phase monitoring in each of the individual waveguides of the two 16 waveguide launching arrays, and also for fault protection both at the waveguide arrays and klystrons. Using this system good waveguide-plasma coupling has been obtained and net RF power densities of 9 kW/cm2 have been injected by the waveguide array without microwave arcing.