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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.
Ralph Ewig, Thomas R. Jarboe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 36 | Number 1 | July 1999 | Pages 62-68
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A92
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method for modeling the time-varying magnetic geometry in a low-aspect-ratio tokamak is developed. The model includes mutual inductance effects of an arbitrarily shaped (toroidally symmetric) conducting shell, poloidal field (PF) coils, a saddle coil with finite gap resistance, and a single element, distributed plasma current. The plasma current distribution is specified using EFIT results and remains unchanged during the simulation, while the magnitude of the plasma current is ramped up linearly over time. The resulting simulation code is used to predict power supply requirements and tracking capabilities of an arbitrarily chosen feedback mechanism employed to operate the PF coils of the tokamak.