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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.
C. G. Bathke
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1636-1640
Fusion Power Plants and Economics | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963185
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The ARIES team has assessed the power-plant attractiveness of the following five tokamak physics regimes: 1) steady state, first stability regime; 2) pulsed, first stability regime; 3) steady state, second stability regime; 4) steady state, reversed shear; and 5) steady state, low aspect ratio. Cost-based systems analysis of these five tokamak physics regimes suggests that an electric power plant based upon a reversed-shear tokamak is significantly more economical than one based on any of the other four physics regimes. Details of this comparative systems analysis are described herein.