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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.
N. Umeda, N. Akino, N. Ebisawa, L. Grisham, S. Hikita, A. Honda, T. Itoh, M. Kawai, M. Kazawa, M. Kusaka, N. Kusanagi, M. Kuriyama, P. Lee, K. Mogaki, T. Ohga, H. Oohara, F. Satoh, H. Seki, N. Seki, Y. Tanai, R. Toyokawa, K. Usui, H. Yamazaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1135-1139
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963398
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Development for enhancing the beam characteristics in the N-NBI system for JT-60U has been continued since 1996. In order to increase beam power and duration time, a few countermeasures for improvement of source plasma non-uniformity have been tried The first is changing arc current limiting resistors for changing arc current distribution, the second is regulating filament temperature for altering arc discharge mode, the third is optimizing a magnetic barrier in arc chamber, and the fourth is blocking the beam acceleration at a strongly non-uniform source plasma area by masking both upper and lower edge of plasma grid All of these countermeasures have been confirmed to be effective.