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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. Putrik, N. S. Klimov, Yu. M. Gasparyan, V. A. Barsuk, V. S. Efimov, V. L. Podkovyrov, A. M. Zhitlukhin, A. D. Yaroshevskaya, D. V. Kovalenko
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 70-76
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-748
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Edge-localized mode (ELM) simulation experiments were held on the quasi-stationary plasma accelerator QSPA-T to study the formation of plasma-facing material (PFM) erosion products. Parameters of the deuterium plasma heat loads in QSPA-T were close to those expected during transient events in ITER. A diagnostic system for measuring the deposition rate of the erosion products with resolution time of 0.02 ms (pulse duration 0.5 ms) was designed. It allowed defining the deposition rate dependence on time and property changes of the deposited film during the pulse. The average deposition rate in QSPA-T under exposures to ultra-short D plasmas was in the range of (0.1 to 100)×1019 at·cm2·s−1, which was much higher than that for stationary processes. It has been found that deuterium concentration in the deposited W films depends on substrate temperature and deposition rate approximately in the same way as for stationary processes. As the substrate temperature and deposition rate increased, the D/W atomic ratio in the W films decreased. For describing the evolution of the D/W ratio with the substrate temperature and the tungsten deposition rate, an empirical equation proposed by De Temmerman and Doerner (J. Nucl. Mater., 2009), but with alternative parameters, has been used.