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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.
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Dr. Scott Hsu is Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Energy for Science and Innovation and DOE Lead Fusion Coordinator for a crosscutting “all-of-DOE” effort to accelerate fusion energy RD&D. Scott is concluding his tenure as a Program Director at ARPA-E, where he launched the BETHE and GAMOW fusion programs. Prior to ARPA-E, Scott was a plasma and fusion research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Scott testified to the Energy Subcommittee of the House Science Committee in 2016 on innovative fusion concept development, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a co-recipient of the 2002 APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. Scott earned a Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences (Program in Plasma Physics) from Princeton University and a B.S summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
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