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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.
Yasushi Seki, Isao Aoki, Shuzo Ueda, Satoshi Nishio, Ryoichi Kurihara, Takashi Tabara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 353-357
Fusion Economics and Reactor Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963639
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The radwaste generated from three fusion power reactors using ferritic steel, V-alloy and SiC/SiC composite were classified into low level waste (LLW) which can be disposed by shallow land burial (SLB) and medium level waste (MLW) which cannot be disposed by SLB because one or more of the radionuclides exceeds the derived limiting concentration value. When the recently developed FENDL/A2.0 library is used, the SLB fraction became 91% for ferritic steel, 36% for V-alloy and 65% for SiC/SiC. It is found that if the Nb impurity content in V-. alloy and N impurity content in SiC/SiC could be reduced to 1/100 (0.15 Wt.ppm) and 1/20 (5times10−4 Wt.%), respectively, the SLB fraction becomes nearly 100% for both materials. On the other hand, the alloying element W content needs to be reduced to further increase the SLB fraction in case of the ferritic steel F82H.