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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.
E. Kawamori, T. Tamano, Y. Nakashima, M. Yoshikawa, S. Kobayashi, Y. Watanabe, H. Aminaka, T. Cho, K. Ishii, A. Mase, K. Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 257-260
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963455
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In the GAMMA10 tandem mirror, the first pellet injection experiments in open systems have started.1 The tandem mirror machine is suitable for measuring propagation of pellet-fueled particles along the magnetic field lines. We observed a very low frequency oscillation in various diagnostic signals from the plasmas with a pellet injection. The frequency of the oscillation is a few hundred Hz. It is found that the phase of those signals changes to anti-phase at a certain place. The oscillation continued during plug-ECH for the formation of confining potential and its amplitude decays within a several ms after the end of ECH pulse. Measurements at several locations along the field lines indicates that this oscillation is a standing wave along field lines of plasma density perturbation due to the pellet injection. The wavelength of the oscillation is estimated to be about 6m. The oscillation has mode number n = 3.