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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.
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K. A. Werley, C. G. Bathke, R. A. Krakowski, R. L. Miller, J. N. DiMarco
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1266-1271
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29515
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Essential to the achievement of economically compact fusion power cores is the radiation of a large fraction of the plasma heating power uniformly to the first wall, thereby assuring adequate longevity of the divertor impurity control system. The radiation of significant fractions of the heating power from the beta-limited core-plasma region in an RFP, however, requires a corresponding increase in the quality of (non-radiative) confinement. It is shown that radiating ≳ 70% of the total heating power from the core plasma of the TITAN compact reversed-field-pinch (RFP) reactor is possible with non-radiative confinement times that are a large factor (> 15) below classical confinement predictions and are within the present scaling relation based upon extrapolations of the existing RFP transport database. By comparison, the confinement in the ARIES-I tokamak reactor is within a factor of 2 of neo-classical predictions.