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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.
S. Satake, H. Sawamura, M. Kimura, T. Kunugi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 640-643
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-956
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this work, a simulation is presented that plays an important part in estimating the characteristics of cooling in a blanket used for high-temperature plasma in a fusion reactor. The objective of this study is to perform a large-scale direct numerical simulation (DNS) on the heat transfer of turbulent flow of the coolant materials assumed gas flow. The coolant flow conditions in a fusion reactor are assumed to be defined by a Reynolds number of a higher order. To investigate the effect of Reynolds number on the scalar structures, the Reynolds number based on a friction velocity and a pipe radius was set to be Reτ = 1050. The numbers of the computational grid points used for Reτ= 1050 were 2048 × 512 × 768 in the z−, r−, and ϕ-directions, respectively. In this work, details on the turbulent quantities such as the mean flow, turbulent stresses, turbulent kinetic energy budget, and the turbulent statistics were obtained.