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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.
Kazunori Morishita, Ryuichiro Sugano, Brian D. Wirth
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 441-445
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A374
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The recent progress on our multiscale modeling to understand radiation damage processes in materials during irradiation is reviewed. The energies of He-V cluster formation in Fe were evaluated using a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique that employed interatomic potentials partially developed by first-principle (FP) calculations. Using the calculated energies, the longer timescale behavior of He-V clusters in Fe was investigated using a kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) simulation technique. The FP-MD-KMC scheme provided us significant information on the thermal stability of a He-V cluster in Fe as a function of the helium-to-vacancy ratio of the cluster.