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GAIN makes diverse selections for its third round of awards this year
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.
T.E. Luzzi, I.R. Clarkson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 908-913
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-A24852
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We report on the final design of the direct converter for MINIMARS, a tandem mirror power reactor project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The project objectives are to design a plant to produce electricity at less than 50 mils/kWh and design an inherently safe plasma shutdown and heat transport system that sustains no damage from loss of coolant and loss of flow. The direct converter coolant like the blanket coolant is used to generate primary turbine steam. All thermo and structural load bearing elements are designed for the reactor lifetime. The halo scraper sputter lifetime is five full power years. The power to circulate the helium coolant through the direct converter elements is less than 5% of the thermal power recovered.