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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
L. Garzotti, P. Innocente, S. Martini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 505-509
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963662
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In the RFX reversed field pinch (RFP) frozen H and D pellets with mass ≤5·1020 atoms and speed ≤1.5 km/s are used for plasma fuelling. If a high speed pellet is launched with no plasma or is not completely ablated, the graphite first wall may be damaged by its impact. The paper presents the design of a protection system, based on real-time measurements of plasma current and density, developed to prevent incomplete pellet ablation.
