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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.”
O. Mitarai, A. Sagara, S. Sudo, O. Motojima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 278-281
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947087
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Ignition characteristics in the D-T high field helical reactor of R=20 m, ā =2 m are analyzed by the “operation path method” on the P̄htτE2-T plane and “POPCON”. Based on the LHD scaling law, the strong magnetic field B0=12~15 T makes a reactor operable with a low confinement enhancement, leading to the low helium ash accumulation. POPCON analyses with the synchrotron radiation losses, the density limit and confinement time saturation effect show that merginal confinement factors to have the fusion power of 3 GW are 0.9 to 1.3 for Bo=15 T, and 1.1 to 1.6 for 12 T, respectively.
