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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.
Toshiro Kaneko, Yutaka Miyahara, Rikizo Hatakeyama, Noriyoshi Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 335-339
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963879
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The formation of a plasma potential is experimentally investigated in a fully-ionized collisionless plasma flow along converging magnetic-field lines in the presence of a single ECR point. When the ECR occurs in the region of converging region, the potential profile is observed to be drastically modified. The resultant potential structure consists of a negative potential dip and a subsequent positive potential hump working as a plasma-flow dike potential, which persists in the steady state when the ECR point is located in a region of good curvature of the magnetic configuration. However, this potential structure temporally collapses when the ECR point is located in a bad curvature region. The phenomenon is considered to be caused by low-frequency flute and drift instabilities.