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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.
Liu Cheng-An, Wang Tian-Long, Lu Xun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 876-881
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29455
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the Tokamak driver parameters that could be chieved round about 2000 in the world, neutronics studies and analyses have been performed to the blanket configurtion and materials and self-shielding effect of group cross section for the commercial Tokamak fusion-fission hybrid reactor. The main concern of the study has been the assessment of the global tritium breeding ratio, the global Pu239 breeding ratio and determinmatton of the total power production. The results show that it's possible to produce 4 tons of Pu239 per year and net electric output of one GWe, that the self-shielding effect is not important for the fast fission blanket.