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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.
Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Kazunori Morishita, Akira Kohyama, Howard L. Heinisch, Fei Gao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 328-330
Fusion Materials | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8923
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Molecular dynamics and molecular statics calculations have been performed to evaluate the formation energy of self-interstitial atom (SIA) clusters in -SiC. For SIA-clusters with stoichiometric composition, an attempt has been made to fit the calculated data points to a polynomial function of cluster size n. The resultant equation EF=1.01n1+2.04n1/2 may indicate the applicability to a wide range of cluster sizes. This formalization will be useful for the development of accurate model on nucleation and growth of SIA-clusters, which is required for the modeling on irradiation-induced microstructural evolutions of materials in nuclear fusion reactors.