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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.
Alexei Yu. Chirkov, Vladimir I. Khvesyuk, Sergei V. Ryzhkov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 393-397
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963892
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Various possibilities of improving of tandem mirror systems are considered. Methods of reducing significant disadvantage of open system – intensive emission interaction between plasma and chamber wall surface and possibility of decreasing of electrostatic barrier value are considered. Creating so-called double tandem mirror system is suggested to obtain mirror based confinement system without magnetic force lines, piercing chamber wall surface. Besides, principle of realising other suggested method of protecting of plasma – magnetic insulation is presented. It is shown, that magnetic insulation in mirror based fusion reactor can give significant protective effect.