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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.
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J.S. Sarff, M. Cekic, D.J. Den Hartog, G. Fiksel, N.E. Lanier, S.C. Prager, M.R. Stoneking
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1403-1408
Innovative Approaches to Fusion Energy | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963144
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The reversed field pinch (RFP) is a toroidal, high beta plasma confinement configuration with great potential as an attractive, compact, high power density fusion reactor core. Relatively poor confinement has been a main obstacle in establishing the viability of the RFP. Recent progress in understanding magnetic-fluctuation-induced transport in the RFP has spawned the idea of current profile control to reduce fluctuations and transport. With the addition of inductive poloidal current drive in the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) device, the energy confinement time is increased five-fold from 1.2 ms to 6 ms. The lowest magnetic fluctuation level and highest electron temperature observed in MST are also obtained with inductive current profile control. These results strongly encourage the development of improved and steady-state current profile control.