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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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Zaphar-Ullah Koreshi, Asaf Kinrot, Jeffery D. Lewins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 3 | November 1992 | Pages 371-387
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30096
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The TIBER II blanket design is chosen for a neutronic sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo perturbation theory. A preliminary analysis is carried out with both deterministic and Monte Carlo simulation codes to estimate the sensitivity of the tritium breeding in the blanket to the atomic density ratio of tungsten multiplier and aqueous solution breeder. Derivatives of the neutron collision density in the blanket are then sampled using the collision estimator in the MORSE code. It is found that for small perturbations, the neutron fluxes and tritium breeding rates can be predicted quite accurately, thus saving substantial computing in a preliminary design study.