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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
J. P. Sharpe, B. J. Merrill, D. A. Petti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 312-316
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A353
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Preliminary studies have been performed to evaluate the production of aerosols in wetted wall and solid wall IFE chamber configurations. Molten lead and flibe were examined for a wetted-wall chamber 6.5 m in radius, giving aerosol mass concentrations of 20 mg/m3 and 10 mg/m3, respectively, for a simulated 458 MJ indirect-drive target microexplosion. Solid wall materials of tungsten and steel exposed to a 154 MJ direct-drive target microexplosion within an equivalent chamber produced mass concentrations of 0.4 mg/m3 and 90 mg/m3, respectively.
