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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.
R. H. Whitley, G. R. Lutz, S. A. Frieje, D. H. Berwald, J. D. Gordon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1165-1170
Fusion Reactor Design—II | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24888
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A commercial electric plant concept has been developed with multiple advanced tokamak reactors operating at a single site with shared equipment. These multiplexed reactors use superconducting magnets, operate at high beta, and have inductively driven plasma current. The attractiveness of this approach is based on cost reductions which are achieved by the sharing of some components and on availability improvements resulting from the addition of standby equipment. Parametric studies have been performed to determine both the optimal number of reactors in a plant and the optimal reactor characteristics. A plant layout has been developed which uses remote maintenance technologies for operation and maintenance such that at least part of the plant is always operational.