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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.
M. Usman Naseer, F. Deeba, S. I. W. Shah, S. Hussain, A. Qayyum
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 947-956
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1820748
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Photodiodes masked with narrow-band filters have been used to obtain the temporal profiles of Hα and Hβ line emissions in the pre-ionization phase of hydrogen discharge in the MT-I Spherical Tokamak. The line ratio method relating the emission intensities of the above mentioned lines, having different excitation thresholds, provides the temporal profile of electron temperature. A triple Langmuir probe array having three individual sets of triple probes, arranged linearly, has also been used to measure the temporal profile of electron temperature at three different radial positions simultaneously. Additionally, a spectrometer HR4000+ is used to get the line-integrated emission intensity of H-Balmer lines. The objective of this experiment is to demonstrate the successful development of the optical and electric probe as a diagnostic tool for tokamak discharge.