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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.
G. N. Throumoulopoulos, G. Pantis
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 1 | July 1986 | Pages 149-153
Technical Note | Fusion Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24755
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Under the assumption of time-dependent net core breeding gain of fusion-fission symbiotic systems, analytical forms for the stockpile fuel trajectories have been derived, both for continuous and discontinuous operation. Also, usable regions for characteristic system parameters such as doubling time, minimum inventory, minimum inventory time, and minimum initial inventory have been defined. It is shown that fuel trajectories defined previously are underestimating the importance of the time dependence of the net core breeding gain.