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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 692-696
Inertial Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29425
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Gigantic fusion-fission inertial confinement (I.C.) reactor systems can produce much power and very large quantities of nuclear materials such as T, He-3, U-233, Pu, etc. Before engineering such I.C. reactor systems, a much smaller, flexible all-fission I.C. test reactor system should be built. In this test reactor explosions of about 100 tons (420 gigajoules) are contained within a 30 meter diameter sturdy chamber and studies could be made of: containing inertial confinement explosions seriatum; using sodium slurries as the working liquid; processing slurry captured explosion debris; fabricating nuclear explosive assemblies; using Pu, Be, Li, and D for the production of T and He-3; breeding plutonium from depleted uranium; breeding uranium-233 from Th; etc.