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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.
P. A. Finn, J. N. Brooks, D. A. Ehst, Y. Gohar, R. F. Mattas, C. C. Baker
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 902-907
Innovative Concepts for Power Conversion | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24851
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The benefits and limitations arising from the use of polarized deuterium-tritium fuels were assessed for commercial tokamak fusion reactors. The difference in capital costs for a reactor with and without polarized fueling was quantified for two reactors, one with a beta of 0.067 and a major radius of 7 m and the second with a beta of 0.25 and a major radius of 5.25 m. The change in reactor performance was also quantified. The conclusion was that the sum of all benefits associated with the use of polarized fuels does not result in a significant improvement in the tokamak reactor economics.