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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.
R. Khayrutdinov1, J. Q. Dong2, E. Montalvo, E. A. Azizov1 R. Carrera, W. D. Booth, M. N. Rosenbluth3
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1296-1301
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29520
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An elongated tokamak plasma is subject to vertical instability. The fast plasma motion can be stabilized by a vacuum vessel and/or axisymmetric conductors. For stabilization of the slow plasma movement, an active feedback control system is required. A detailed simulation of control systems operation and optimization of active coil positioning in the single-turn tokamak IGNITEX is presented. Rigid displacement and full MHD models are utilized. The rigid displacement model defines the machine's stability diagrams. The plasma time response to control signals and the power characteristics of the control system are found using the full MHD model.