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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.
J. M. Perlado, D. Lodi, J. Marian, A. Gonzalez Plata, M. Salvador, L. Colombo, M. J. Caturla, T. Diaz de la Rubia
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 3 | May 2003 | Pages 384-392
Technical Paper | Chambers and Chamber Wall Protection Methods | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A282
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
New results are presented on the time-dependent neutron intensities and energy spectra from compressed inertial fusion energy (IFE) targets and in structural Fe walls behind typical IFE chamber protection schemes. Protection schemes of LiPb and Flibe have been considered with two different thicknesses, and neutron fluxes in the outer Fe layer as a function of the time from target emission are given. Differences between the two solutions are noted and explained, and the effect of thickness is quantitatively shown. Time-dependent defect characterization of the Fe layer under pulse irradiation is presented. A new well-established multiscale modeling procedure injects, at the appropriate dose rate, damage cascades in a kinetic Monte Carlo lattice (microscopic) to study defect diffusion, clustering, and disintegration. The differences with a continuous irradiation for a still low fluence of irradiation are presented. Experimental validation of a multiscale modeling approach has been recognized and proposed in the Spanish VENUS-II project by using Fe ions on pure and ultrapure Fe. To study similar problems in SiC, new tools are needed to quantify the kinetic defects; results leading to the validation of a new tight binding molecular dynamics code for SiC are presented.