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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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Toshihiko Yamanishi, Mikio Enoeda, Kenji Okuno, Takumi Hayashi, Junzo Amano, Yuji Naruse, Robert H. Sherman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 419-424
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29659
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Cryogenic distillation experiments have been performed with an H-D-T system (1.5 g of tritium) by using two columns with different inner diameters (1 and 2 cm) and different size packings (a 3-mm Dixon ring for the larger column and a 1.5-mm Dixon ring for the smaller column). The height equivalent to a theoretical plate (HETP) values measured during total reflux operation ranged from 4 to 6 cm for both columns and showed no apparent dependence on vapor velocities. The HETP values under total recycle operation, which varied from 3 to 6 cm, gradually decreased with increasing reflux ratios. The feed flow rates also had influenced the HETP. Consequently, the HETP values were correlated by the flow rates of the feed and vapor streams of the column and by the reflux ratio.