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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.
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O. P. Joneja, P. Scherrer, J.-P. Schneeberger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | September 1992 | Pages 243-250
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30107
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A double ionization chamber employing a thin coating of enriched 6LiF radiating material offers an effective means of identifying a 6Li(n, α)t reaction. The concept is based on the detection of ionization caused by alpha particles and tritons. The charged particles emitted in opposite directions can be detected by a double parallel plate ionization chamber configuration. This method can therefore be employed to directly measure tritium breeding rates inside the fusion blankets. Complete details of the parameters that govern the response of such a detector system are described. A Monte Carlo scheme is developed to determine the direction and energy lost by the particles in traversing various media, and the detector response is calculated from the energy deposited in the ionization region of each chamber. The calculations are performed for the entire energy range of neutrons available in the fusion blankets.