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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.
J. G. Yang, B. C. Kim, H. K. Na, N. S. Yoon, J. Hong, W. C. Kim, G. S. Lee, S. M. Hwang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 268-272
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963865
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We report the plasma production experiment in the central cell of the Hanbit device. In the experiment, an RF wave is excited by a slot antenna with a driving frequency of 3.75 MHz, and the RF power is applied up to 200 kW with a flat-top pulse length of 100 ms. The reproducible plasmas are produced without preionization with an averaged density of 2×1012 cm−3. The power absorption characteristics of the slot antenna are investigated by measuring the plasma resistance. The measured value of plasma resistance is in the range of 0.2 to 1.2 Ω. The discharges show transitions of the plasma density as the RF power increases.