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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.
Koichi Maki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 2 | September 1987 | Pages 310-319
Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A11963788
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
When a blanket concept is applied to the actual reactor design, various structural changes such as material thickness, material volume fractions, etc., are made to adjust the overall design to meet lifetime and material stress requirements. After these changes, the new tritium breeding ratio (TBR) is required to be easily and quickly estimated. Hence, an analytical TBR formula was derived by separating absorption, scattering, neutron multiplication, and tritium production cross sections at high energies above the multiplication reaction threshold from those at low energies near the thermal energy. The formula was applied to three blanket types. The TBR values calculated by this formula agreed with those of an ANISN transport code within 5%.