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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.
P. W. Fisher, M. J. Gouge
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 515-520
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963664
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As part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) plasma fueling development program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has fabricated a pellet injection system to test the mechanical and thermal properties of extruded tritium. This repeating single-stage, pneumatic, Tritium-Proof-of-Principle Phase II (TPOP-II) Pellet Injector has a piston-driven mechanical extruder and is designed to extrude and accelerate hydrogenic pellets sized for the ITER device. Tritium and deuterium-tritium (D-T) pellets have been produced in experiments at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Tritium Systems Test Assembly. About 38 g of tritium was used in the experiment. This paper presents results of the TPOP-II extrusion experiments. These extrusion experiments indicate that both T2 and D-T will require higher extrusion forces than D2 by about a factor of 2 and that the flow of the material may be characterized by static and dynamic shear strengths.