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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.
N. N. Skvortsova, E. V. Voronova, I. Yu. Vafin, N. S. Akhmadullina, T. E. Gayanova, A. A. Letunov, V. P. Logvinenko, A. Yu. Kolchanova, V. D. Borzosekov, A. S. Sokolov, V. D. Stepakhin, E. A. Obraztsova, O. N. Shishilov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 8 | November 2025 | Pages 833-847
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2478656
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper presents a description of the creation of heterogeneous catalysts by plasma-chemical methods using a powerful pulsed fusion gyrotron. The microdisperse particles for catalysts are created by irradiating a mixture of copper (Cu) and dielectric (aluminum oxide, silicon oxide, titanium oxide, silicon–aluminum oxynitride) powders by the microwave radiation of a gyrotron, which initiates plasma-chemical reactions inside the mixture and in the air above it. These are complex chain reactions of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis. As a result of these reactions, microparticles of dielectrics into whose surface Cu nanoparticles are imbedded are created.