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The Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear has recently awarded four third-round fiscal year 2026 vouchers to support the development of innovative nuclear technologies. Each company will get access to specific capabilities and expertise in the DOE’s national laboratory complex—in this round of awards Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories are named—and will be responsible for a minimum 20 percent cost share, which can be an in-kind contribution.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1241-1246
Impurity Control and Vacuum Technology | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39937
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MFTF-B is the largest fusion mirror device currently under construction. When completed in 1988 the mirror will be fueled and heated by 11 neutral beamlines whose combined power output will be over 40 MW. These beamlines are being designed and built by TRW Systems. Associated with each beamline is a vacuum system whose performance plays a crucial role in the operation of neutral beams. Good vacuum is needed in the injectors and dump tanks to limit the beam loss due to reionization and to avoid excessive gas flow into the plasma chamber. This paper will describe the design of these vacuum systems and explain the considerations and tradeoffs made in the process.