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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.
E. Mazzucato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | April 2021 | Pages 173-179
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1858673
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the goal of reducing the radiation damage and radioactive waste that will occur in a tokamak reactor using the deuterium-tritium cycle, this paper proposes a new magnetic scheme capable of confining hot and dense deuterium–helium3 plasmas. It consists of two 200-m-long cylindrical plasmas connected by semicircular sections to form a racetrack configuration. The reactor should be capable of producing from 7.8 to 13 GW of fusion power when operating at electron densities of 2 × 1020 m−3, temperature 40 keV, and density ratios of the two reactants from 1:2 to 2:1.