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Kentucky disburses $10M in nuclear grants
The Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority (KNEDA) recently distributed its first awards through the new Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program, which was established last year. In total, KNEDA disbursed $10 million to a variety of companies that will use the funding to support siting studies, enrichment supply-chain planning, workforce training, and curriculum development.
Jonathan Perry, Adam Aaron, Chris Stone, Arnold Lumsdaine
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 8 | November 2023 | Pages 1178-1186
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2177465
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The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) vacuum pumping system is responsible for creating prototypic conditions in the plasma material interaction chamber that mimic those in a fusion reactor divertor region. Additionally, the vacuum system needs to minimize the pressure in the plasma heating region to improve the coupling of the electron cyclotron heating and ion cyclotron heating to the plasma, minimizing waste heat exhausted to high heat flux components. The final design of the system has been sized to comply with the vacuum pump operating environment and to reduce the number of unique pumps required while meeting performance requirements. Bounding cases with and without the plasma present have been developed in the pumping analysis, and an initial calculation has been performed based on the plasma pumping identified in Proto-MPEX operation though this result will remain unverified until MPEX operation.