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The Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear has recently awarded four third-round fiscal year 2026 vouchers to support the development of innovative nuclear technologies. Each company will get access to specific capabilities and expertise in the DOE’s national laboratory complex—in this round of awards Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories are named—and will be responsible for a minimum 20 percent cost share, which can be an in-kind contribution.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1477-1482
Fusion Nucleonic | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24942
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Neutron albedo methods can be used to simplify transport calculations in a wide variety of applications. Their utilization requires a collection of albedo data and a model which makes these results convenient for hand or machine computation. Results are presented here from neutron albedo calculations for incident intermediate-energy neutrons. These results can be explained using our knowledge of neutron interaction physics. Total albedos are directly related to the cross sections for elastic scatter and absorption. Angular distributions of reflected neutrons are approximately cosθr for all incident neutron conditions. The total albedo results are well modeled by an extension of a previously developed fast-neutron albedo model when ∑abs/∑t (the ratio of absorption to total cross section) is small.