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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.
Wolfgang Schule
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 1 | July 1986 | Pages 113-123
Technical Paper | Materials Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24752
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In Cu-30 Zn alloys during irradiation with 2-MeV electrons from a Van de Graaff generator, the electrical resistivity first decreases due to radiation-enhanced ordering and then increases due to the formation of very small interstitial clusters. The activation energy during irradiation for both processes is approximately Qirr = 0.37 eV and is interpreted as half of the migration energy of freely migrating interstitials. For irradiation temperatures below 75°C, a second resistivity increase is found that is attributed to the formation of stable interstitial clusters. The observed radiation-enhanced diffusion rates below ambient temperature are many orders of magnitude smaller and larger than those predicted by the one- and the two-interstitial models, respectively, and these rates are in agreement with the predictions of the modified two-interstitial model.