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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.
Li Jiang, Ge Gao, Zhengyi Huang, Jie Zhang, Peng Wu, Xuesong Xu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 96-102
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1957369
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
According to the ITER requirement, the availability of the poloidal field (PF) coil power supply system must be 98.3% during the life cycle of ITER. In order to meet this requirement, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Inspectability (RAMI) analysis has been applied for analyzing the availability and reliability of the PF power supply system. First, the function analyses, which are described using the Integration Definition Function–language Ø or IDEFØ model are performed. Second, the failure mode effect and criticality analyses are used to calculate the risk level, present the potential causes and effects, and provide the risk mitigation actions to reduce the risk level for each failure. Third, the reliability block diagram is built to simulate the availability and reliability of the system. RAMI analysis provides a method that can be followed to improve the availability and reliability of the system, and from the results, the design requirement can be satisfied.