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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.
Mirela Draghia, Gheorghe Pasca, George Ana, Alin Fuciu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 3 | April 2020 | Pages 221-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1704140
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In the tritium recovery processes, the microreactor is used for conversion of the various tritiated streams to water. Microreaction technology offers many advantages for chemical reactions, mainly a high surface-to-volume ratio, a well-defined residence time in the microchannels, and good thermal transport. Also, from an oxidation point of view, the microreactor is proven to be safer by comparison with a conventional oxidation reactor. Another major advantage is that the microreactor can be designed to provide a high recombination efficiency (more than 99.9%), if required. This paper aims to present the issues related to the design, calculation, and manufacturing of a high-efficiency microreactor that can be used to convert the tritiated streams to water.