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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.A. Causey, K.L. Wilson, W.R Wampler, B.L. Doyle
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1585-1588
Material and Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29567
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For the next generation of fusion reactors, tritium inventory will be one of the greatest safety concerns. Both CIT and ITER call for the use of graphite or carbon composites as the first wall and divertor material. If this graphite should contain a large number of traps for the storage of tritium, the resulting inventory could restrict the operation of the reactor. This report presents the results of an experimental study on the effects of neutron irradiation on the trapping of tritium in graphite. Enhancements in the trapping levels by two orders of magnitude up to as high as 0.2 atomic percent were seen for graphite samples irradiated to approximately 10 dpa at different temperatures. The results are compared to those obtained for ion damaged samples. The implications of the results for the operation of CIT and ITER are examined.