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Industry Update—June 2025
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:
DOD selects companies for its installations microreactor program
The Department of Defense has selected eight technology companies as being eligible to seek funding for developing microreactor technologies as part of the DOD’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program. That program seeks to “design, license, build, and operate one or more microreactor nuclear power plants on military installations . . . to support global operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace.” The selected companies are Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Kairos Power, Oklo, Radiant Industries, Westinghouse Government Services, and X-energy. Specific objectives of the DOD program are to “field a decentralized scalable microreactor system capable of producing enough electrical power to meet 100 percent of all critical loads” and to “utilize the civil regulatory pathways of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stimulate commercial nuclear microreactor technology development and the associated supply chains in the U.S.”
V. S. Voitsenya, V. V. Chechkin, L. I. Grigor'eva, O. S. Pavlichenko, A. F. Shtan, A. I. Skibenko, S. I. Solodovchenko, E. D. Volkov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 223-226
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947074
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Results of measurements of diverted plasma parameters in several stellarator type devices (Heliotron E, Saturn, Uragan-2, Uragan-3, Uragan-3M) are analyzed. A diverted plasma flow distribution appears to depend not only on the magnetic configuration properties but on confined plasma parameters, methods of plasma heating, the level of edge turbulence, etc. In some cases it turns possible to elucidate the factors affecting strong inhomogeneity of diverted plasma flows.
