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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.
Masayuki Yoshikawa, Xiaolong Wang, Masahiro Morishita, Yoriko Shima, Masayuki Chikatsu, Junko Kohagura, Mizuki Sakamoto, Ryutaro Minami, Masaki Iso, Yousuke Nakashima, Tsuyoshi Imai, Makoto Ichimura, Ryo Yasuhara, Ichihiro Yamada, Hisamichi Funaba, Takashi Minami
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 99-104
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-845
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Thomson scattering (TS) is one of the most reliable diagnostics to measure the electron temperature and electron density radial profiles in fusion plasmas. In GAMMA 10, a yttrium-aluminum-garnet (YAG)-TS system was constructed with the large solid angle of TS collection optics. We carried out Rayleigh and Raman scattering experiments for system settings and density calibration. We applied the YAG-TS system to the GAMMA 10 plasma. We can successfully measure the radial profiles of electron temperature and density in the central cell of GAMMA 10 by using the YAG-TS system in a single plasma shot. Moreover, in order to increase the TS signal intensities, we have constructed a multipass TS system of the polarization-based system with image relaying optics. Clear TS signals from first to fourth passing lasers through the GAMMA 10 plasma were obtained. The obtained TS signal intensity was about three times larger by first to fourth passing lasers through the plasma than that of the first pass.