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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.
Ch.You Q.Wang L.Wu Y.Jiao J.Huang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 826-829
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29446
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A conceptual design for a liquid lithium self-cooled tokamak commercial breeder, TCB, has been performed. Fission-suppressed blanket is adopted to maximize fuel production and alleviate safety problem. U-Pu cycle is chosen owing to its available technology. The difficulty of suppressing fission in a uranium system is partly overcome by using depleted uranium. The toroidal effect and self-shielding effect have been taken into account. The effects of neutron source density distribution on the blanket neutronics performance and poloidal variation of the neutron wall loading are also studied.