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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.
T.L. Grimm, K.E. Kreischer, W.C. Guss, R.J. Temkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1648-1653
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29957
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A 200–300 GHz high power pulsed gyrotron oscillator has recently been operated in a 14 T Bitter magnet. The design of this pulsed gyrotron is based on continuous wave (CW) constraints. A single cylindrical waveguide cavity with linear tapers on each end was tested using two magnetron injection guns (MIG). The first produces a large electron beam which excites whispering gallery modes and the second produces a smaller beam that will couple to volume modes. The highest output power of 970 kW was generated at 229 GHz in the TE34,6 using the large MIG with a 59 A, 92 kV electron beam. This corresponds to an efficiency of 18% which was the highest produced in this mode. Similar efficiencies were obtained at 202 and 213 GHz using the same MIG and at 290 GHz using both the large and small MIG. The experimental power and efficiency is about a factor of two below the single mode theoretical predictions, even at low current. A detailed parameterization of the TE34,6 mode's operating range, measurements of the beam's velocity ratio (α), and comparison to previous high frequency work at MIT imply that mode competition is one important cause of the low experimental power and efficiency.