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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.
G. F. Chapline, L. F. Nakae, N. Snyderman, J. M. Verbeke, R. Wurz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 150-154
Fission | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13412
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Over the past few years a number of experiments have been carried out at LLNL with a scintillator array that has the ability to count individual MeV neutrons and -rays with nanosecond timing. It has been demonstrated that this array can be used to measure the statistical properties of the neutrons emitted in single fission chains. The multiple time scales over which these fission neutrons are correlated allow one to deduce quite a lot regarding the nature of the fissile assembly. In this paper we will describe how neutron correlations measured with a liquid scintillator array can be used to assay the amounts of fissile elements in reprocessed and spent nuclear fuels.