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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 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 795-801
Impurity Control | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24837
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A mechanism for positioning the Advanced Limiter Test II (ALT-II) limiter blades inside the TEXTOR tokamak is described. Testing of two candidate material pairs for use as gears and bearings, Nitronic 60/aluminum bronze and Nitronic 60/Nitronic 60, is also described. The lubricant was a solid film of MoS2. The testing, done at the temperature and pressure range of the tokamak, revealed that the combination of Nitronic 60 and the softer aluminum bronze performed much better than the Nitronic 60/Nitronic 60 combination. The latter combination performed well for 24,000 cycles (48% of expected lifetime), but then experienced a sudden increase in friction due to galling. The former pair performed well, exhibiting low friction throughout the duration of the test.