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It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Michael R. Jonzen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 45 | Number 1 | August 1979 | Pages 54-67
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32285
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Detailed mass and energy calculations have been used to study the fuel- and power-producing capabilities of a gas-cooled fast reactor and a nonoptimized ignition tokamak fusion-fission hybrid reactor. Equivalent energy inputs and outputs are utilized to evaluate the performance of the reactors. The time to recover reactor inputs, system efficiencies, and lifetime net outputs are compared. Fuel production capabilities of the hybrid are contrasted with those of the gas centrifuge and gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment processes for various ore costs. Results show that fuel- and power-producing hybrid systems can compare favorably with fission breeders and isotope separation systems, particularly when utilized in 233U-fueled symbiotic systems.