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DOE selects first companies for nuclear launch pad
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center have announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad: three companies developing microreactors and one developing fuel supply.
The four companies—Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy, and Radiant Industries—were selected from the initial pool of Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program applicants, the two precursor programs to the launch pad.
R. B. Bennett, W. M. Stacey, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 4 | December 1984 | Pages 475-485
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18366
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A theory for the effect of directed neutral beam injection (NBI) on impurity transport in tokamaks is extended to include temperature gradient effects. The extended theory is compared with experimental data from the Princeton Large Torus, and certain coefficients are adjusted to provide agreement. The adjusted theory is applied to assess the potential of NBI being used to prevent impurities from penetrating to the center of future tokamak plasmas, thereby possibly creating a cold radiating edge. The results indicate the possibility of creating a cold radiating edge in the tokamak fusion test reactor and in future tokamaks represented by the fusion engineering device and STARFIRE.