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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.
Robin Größle, Alexander Kraus, Sebastian Mirz, Sebastian Wozniewski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 3 | April 2017 | Pages 369-374
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1291237
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Fusion facilities like ITER and DEMO will circulate several kilograms tritium and deuterium per day in their fuel cycle. For the separation of the hydrogen isotopologues the Isotope Separation System (ISS), based on cryogenic distillation, was developed at Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK). One challenge is to find and develop an in situ and real time method to analyse the isotopologic composition of the column content. Calibration tests with IR absorption spectroscopy (FTIR) with chemically equilibrated samples have been performed at the Tritium absorption IR Spectroscopy Experiment (TApIR). From this previous work and from literature, it is known that the dependence between IR absorbance and the concentrations is non-linear. This makes it impossible to extrapolate the calibration from equilibrium to non-equilibrium samples. This work shows a full D2, H2, and HD calibration with samples in and off the high temperature. This enables us now to measure composition of inactive liquid hydrogen samples with an accuracy of better than 5%. In addition, one of the main challenges on the way to a calibration with tritiated mixtures is shown, the IR absorbance at molecular dimers, which tremendously increases the complexity of IR absorption spectra.