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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.
A.B. Antoniazzi, W.T. Shmayda, R.A. Surette
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 867-871
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST21-867
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Thermal desorption spectroscopy was investigated as a means of measuring the tritium content and the nature of tritiated adsorbed species on stainless steel surfaces. Thermal desorption spectroscopy has been used to determine the effect of a helium glow discharge on a tritiated, 316 SS, surface. HTO proved to be the main desorption species. Glow discharge cleaning has been observed to reduce the amount of sorbed tritium by a factor of ≥ 250.
