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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Steven Krahn, Timothy Ault, Bethany Burkhardt (Vanderbilt Univ), Andrew Sowder (EPRI)
Proceedings | 16th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2017) | Charlotte, NC, April 9-13, 2017 | Pages 217-223
Subject matter expertise has been applied to support a preliminary roadmapping exercise for the near-term implementation of thorium fuel cycles. Background presentations and a panel-facilitated discussion were used as mechanisms to identify and document key implementation challenges in the areas of resources, fuels, reactors, reprocessing/recycle, and safeguards. Participants identified the challenges which they believed should receive the greatest priority in terms of deploying thorium commercially. Reactor-related challenges were deemed to be the most important, followed by those related to reprocessing/recycle and fuels. Individual challenges that were deemed to merit a particularly high priority included fuel qualification, reactor code development and assessment, remote fuel fabrication, and reprocessing flowsheet optimization. These priorities build on those documented in other assessments.