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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.
Xiaoyan Shu, Bo Huang, Jijun Yang, Dongping Liu, Hongyu Fan, Jiali Liao, Yuanyou Yang, Ning Liu, Jun Tang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 278-282
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-734
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Potassium-doped tungsten (W-K) and pure tungsten samples were fabricated by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method and irradiated by He plasma. The samples were characterized by relative density, optical microscopy, and atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements. Through tuning the sintering parameters, samples with different K content but similar density and size distribution were obtained in this study. It is found that a sample with higher K content shows better resistance to helium irradiation than that containing less K. In addition, both W-K samples show better performance than pure W in low energy He resistance, indicating that the potassium doping is helpful for improving He-plasma-irradiation resistance for tungsten-based materials.