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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.
M. E. Fenstermacher, R. S. Devoto, R. H. Bulmer, J. D. Lee, J. R. Miller, J. H. Schultz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 740-745
Plasma Heating and Current Drive-I | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39784
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The physics and engineering guidelines for the ITER device are shown to lead to viable physics operating points for a steady state tokamak power reactor. Non-inductive current drive is provided in steady state by high energy neutral beam injection in the plasma core, lower hybrid slow waves in the outer regions of the plasma and bootstrap current. Plasma gain Q (≡ fusion power/input power) in excess of 20 and average neutron wall loading, <Γ> ≈2.0 MW/m2 are predicted in a device with major radius, R0 = 7.5 m and minor radius, a = 2.8 m.