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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.
V. G. Vasilyev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2149-2152
Blanket and Process Engineering | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24601
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Lithium oxide is a potential solid-state blanket material for fusion applications. Equilibrium water vapour pressure in the system Li2O-H2O including dehydration LiOH H2O and dissociation LiOH were studied in a temperature range 70–160 and 270–440°C respectively. The kinetics of LiOH dissociation was studied in a range 390–450°C by Mak Ben quartz spring balance and in a range 450–600°C by volumetric method collecting hydrogen after chemical decomposition of water on hot metal. Kinetics of tritium oxide release from neutron irradiated lithium oxide with initial concentration 1,11 109 and 3,33 109 Bq/g was studied in vacuum 1,333 Pa in the range 280–450°C. The initial and final stages of the process are characterized by activation energies of 83,5 and 54,4 kJ/mol, respectively. Taking into account the formation of OT groups into inorganic compound under irradiation a mechanism of water and tritium oxide formation and recovery from solid phase is a chemical recombination reaction (polycondensation) which brings to the formation of H2O or HTO and inorganic polymer (sintering).