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X-energy, TerraPower share updates on advanced reactor projects
The two main players of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, X-energy and TerraPower, have both announced significant developments in their projects to deploy advanced commercial-scale reactors.
Olivier Raphaël, Sandrine Maublanc, Sonia Papret, Marc-Aurèle Lagache
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 82 | Number 5 | July 2026 | Pages 964-973
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2511539
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CEA designs, develops, and manufactures targets, especially equation of state targets, to be experimented on the LMJ (Laser MegaJoule) facility. For this type of target, the dimensional properties of the components must be perfectly known. However, conventional instruments can have limitations in their capabilities to measure thickness and flatness for the thinnest membranes. To overcome this situation, dedicated equipment has been developed using two chromatic confocal probes. This development required studying all sources of measurement errors and implementing specific procedures to reduce them. Applications are shown to demonstrate the capabilities and performances of this instrument.