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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.
C. S. Chang, Kaya Imre, Harold Weitzner, P. Colestock
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 618-624
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29254
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Control of radial alpha-particle transport by using ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) waves is investigated in a large-aspect-ratio tokamak geometry. Spatially inhomogeneous ICRF wave energy with properly selected frequencies and wave numbers can induce fast convective transports of alpha particles at the speed of order valpha ∼ (PRF/nα∈0)ρp, where PRF is the ICRF wave power density, nα is the alpha-particle density, ∈0 is the alpha-particle birth energy, and ρp is the poloidal gyroradius of alpha particles at the birth energy. Application to International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) plasma is studied and possible antenna designs to control alpha-particle flux are discussed.
