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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
E. R. Koresheva, I. V. Aleksandrova, I. E. Osipov, S. V. Bazdenkov, V. I. Chtcherbakov, E. L. Koshelev, A. I. Nikitenko, S. M. Tolokonnikov, L. S. Yaguzinskiy, G. D. Baranov, A. I. Safronov, I. D. Timofeev, B. V. Kuteev, V. G. Kapralov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 3 | May 2003 | Pages 290-300
Technical Paper | Targets and Target Protection During Injection | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A269
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Lebedev Physical Institute conducts a wide research and development program to supply targets for inertial fusion energy (IFE) research. Current essential results in that area include the following: (a) A free-standing target (FST) system has been created, which allows the filling, layering, characterizing, and placing of targets into a test optical chamber by injection at a rate of 0.1 Hz, (b) a special physical layout has been developed to carry out the layering experiments in a wide range of target diameters including reactor scaled ones, and (c) the reconstruction algorithms and scan system are under way to complete the FST system with a new subsystem for univalent target characterization based on microtomography. Specific issues for future IFE target technology and injection research are discussed, which include (a) adding a small doping to the fuel to form a cryogenic layer in a glassy state, (b) using large shells with a metallic layer onto the outer surface to shorten the layering time for reactor targets, (c) the cell for target motion driving application to FST technology, and (d) designing a prototypical facility for repeatable target fabrication and injection.