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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.
Keitaro Kondo, Ali Abou-Sena, Frederik Arbeiter, Jörg Brand, Ulrich Fischer, Dennis Große, Axel Klix, Lei Lu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 228-234
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-743
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is an accelerator-based intense neutron source to test fusion reactor materials under irradiation conditions expected to be experienced by a future fusion power plant (DEMO). The Tritium Release Test Module (TRTM) is intended for the irradiation of solid breeder ceramics as well as beryllium involving in-situ tritium release measurements in IFMIF. During the EVEDA (Engineering Validation Engineering Design Activities) phase, a detailed engineering design for the TRTM has been elaborated. A new 3-dimesional Monte Carlo geometry model of TRTM was prepared for a neutronic analysis directly from engineering CAD data using the McCad conversion software developed at KIT. The analysis was performed with the latest version of the Monte Carlo code McDeLicious, an enhancement to MCNP5 for IFMIF neutronics calculations, using a state-of-the-art nuclear data library FENDL-3. The result emphasizes the importance of the neutron reflector which should be placed behind TRTM in order to make the irradiation properties close to the European HCPB DEMO. Although the achievable dpa is lower than that expected in DEMO, the T/dpa and He/dpa values can be simulated very well when the neutron reflector is appropriately designed, in particularly by utilizing beryllium.