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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. Niikura, N. Ueda, I. Yanagisawa, T. Tone, Y. Seki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 602-607
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40105
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A computer program system THERMECH for THERmoMECchanical and THERmal-Hydraulic design of fusion blanket has been developed. The THERMECH executes blanket design by following processes: 1) preliminary thermal-hydraulic design of blanket by one-dimensional analysis, 2) pre-processing, calculation, modifying and post-processing of two-dimensional thermal-hydraulic and thermomechanical analyses, 3) pre-processing, calculation and post-processing of three-dimensional thermomechanical analysis, 4) calculation of inelastic strain and resultant stress by one-dimensional analysis. This paper presents the outline of the THERMECH program system and the application to JAERI Tokamak Power Reactor.
