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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.
Jing Pan, Weiwei Xu, Weibin Xi, Mingzhun Lei, Xufeng Liu, Songtao Wu, Kun Lu, Jing Wei, Yuntao Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 477-488
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1936376
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The evaluation of electromagnetic (EM) loads acting on conductive structures is one of the critical problems for tokamaks. This paper focuses on the main conductive components of the Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR), which are vacuum vessel (VV) and blanket components. A multiscenario EM load-calculating simulator is developed. The simulator adopts circuit equations for the calculation of eddy current, magnetic field, and resulting EM loads acting on the VV. And for EM loads acting on the blanket components, an integral parameter method is applied. With the circuit equations and pre-obtained integral parameters implanted in the simulator, EM loads on the CFETR VV and blankets at different scenarios can be evaluated quickly. Results indicate that the simulator can be conveniently used for multiscenario and real-time EM assessment of the tokamak VV and blanket components.