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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.
Haibiao Ji, Jiefeng Wu, Huapeng Wu, Zhihong Liu, Jianguo Ma, Yongqi Gu, Xiaosong Fan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | April 2021 | Pages 220-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1874763
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Laser trackers are widely used in product inspection in the manufacturing process of the vacuum vessel (VV) for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR). Due to the influence of temperature change on the geometrical properties of metallic materials, temperature change seriously affects the measurement accuracy of the workpiece. Therefore, temperature compensation is important to reduce the measurement errors caused by temperature change. This study uses 1/32 VV mockups as the research object. According to the results of finite element analysis and the onsite measurement results of the 1/32 VV at different temperatures, a method of temperature compensation for the 1/32 VV at different temperatures is summarized.