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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.
Frederick Agyemang, Stephen Yamoah, Seth Kofi Debrah
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 7 | July 2023 | Pages 1479-1490
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2132102
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effect of compensated feedwater (FW) pump control on a nuclear steam supply system with a significant reduction of baseload electricity demand as a common-cause failure could result in temperature elevation of the reactor coolant system and corresponding pressure increases in the pressurizer and steam generators above the set points. The shutting and opening of the pressure relief valve causes the fluid flow rate to transition from laminar to turbulence flow, where a sudden burst, chaotic movement, and inertial forces and weight of the fluid have the potential to cause a break in pipelines leading to a loss-of-coolant accident. This study employs the Fourier transform to simulate the impact of force as the power spectral density (in dBm/Hz) measured in 1 to 99 label harmonics over a specified time window using MATLAB/Simulink library tools. The experimental results show that compensated FW pump control could significantly reduce the effect of turbulence and reveal a perturbation settlement state prior to steady-state laminar flow.