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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 1454-1459
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39971
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A “fusion plate” is designed for use with the Texas A&M University TRIGA reactor. The plate would contain 6LiD and could produce 14 MeV neutrons through thermal neutron induced 6Li(n,∝)3T reaction and subsequent T-D fusion as the tritons slow down. The results are based on the source produced from a plate 60 × 60 cm, containing 324 grams of 6LiD, which is placed in a thermal flux of 2×1012 n/cm2-s. The total neutron production from the T-D reaction and other significant reactions is 1.5×1012 neutrons/sec. The spectra resembles that from a 400 KeV plasma.