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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.
Robert R. Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 686-691
Inertial Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29424
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The design of target chambers for the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF) requires a good understanding of the pressure loadings experienced by the chamber walls. Beam transport, diagnostics, and LMF applications place severe constraints on the chamber fill gas; in current light ion beam concepts only 1.5 torr-meters of helium are between the target and the closest target chamber structures. Simulations of the unavoidable vaporization of the first wall have been performed with the CONRAD computer code for a light ion beam LMF concept. Results show that the peak pressure on the wall is a function of the target x-ray power density on the wall, while the impulse on the wall is a function of x-ray fluence.