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The Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear has recently awarded four third-round fiscal year 2026 vouchers to support the development of innovative nuclear technologies. Each company will get access to specific capabilities and expertise in the DOE’s national laboratory complex—in this round of awards Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories are named—and will be responsible for a minimum 20 percent cost share, which can be an in-kind contribution.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 411-413
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23214
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Methane production yields due to sub-eV H° impact on carbon are in the 10−3 – 10−4 CH4/H° range, i.e., about two orders of magnitude less than CH4/H+ yields for 0.1 – 100 keV H+ ions. Two macroscopic states of “reactivity” were identified for carbon: an “activated” state characterized by a CH4 yield vs. sample temperature curve with a maximum at 700–850K, and a “deactivated” state characterized by a monotonically decreasing yield as a function of temperature. Regarding the retention of sub-eV H° and D° in carbon, our results differ from previously published results. We have observed lower levels of trapped H° (∼1015 H°/cm2), with an apparent trend for saturation, at incident fluences of >2×1019 H°/cm2. Strong synergistic effects have been reported for combined sub-eV H°/5 keV Ar+ impact, while it appears that “insignificant” synergism exists for combined sub-eV H°/e− impact.