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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.
S. K. Ho
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1368-1372
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29533
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A critical step in the development of a tokamak reactor design systems code incorporating the environmental and safety (E&S) features is the capability to calculate the neutron activation radioactivity in a fast and efficient way in order to couple with other physics and engineering modules. We have generated a numerical neutronics database in order to perform the formulation of empirical scaling laws for the radioactivity inventory in various materials. We have studied the activation of the silicon carbide (SiC) composite as the first wall of a fusion reactor. Its radioactive inventory can be calculated approximately by a simple scaling equation.