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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.
S.L. Bogart, C.E. Wagner, N.A. Krall, S. Sedehi, C.F. Weggel, J.A. Dalessandro, T.J. Seed, K.O. Lund
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1404-1411
Machine Upgrades and Next-Generation Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24925
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The Demountable Toroidal Fusion Core (DTFC) concept has been analyzed for the Inductively Heated Tokamak (IHT), the Spherical Tokamak (ST), and the Reversed Field Pinch (RFP) for Fusion Engineering Research Facility (FERF) applications. Each of these confinement concepts is viewed as a “core” that is inserted into a surrounding machine envelope including, for example, the outboard toroidal field coil turns, the major poloidal equilibrium coils, blanket and materials testing stations, and a tension-suppression system (precompression) that provides mechanical integrity during the ignition and burn phases. Parametric systems analysis reveals that DTFC FERF operation is possible for all three confinement configurations with the IHT being the most costly and technologically challenging and the RFP being the least costly and, perhaps, least technologically challenging. Future work on the DTFC will be directed toward a Toroidal Physics Optimization Facility.