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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.
H. Maekawa, S. Yamaguchia, C. Konno, Y. Oyama, Y. Ikeda, K. Sekiyamab, K. Kosako
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1949-1954
Neutronic | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29627
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An integral experiment was performed on a Be cylindrical assembly of 630mm in diameter and 456mm in thick. Measured items were reaction rates, in-system neutron spectra and gamma-ray heating rates. The experimental analysis was performed by the MCNP and DOT3.5 codes using the nuclear data of JENDL-3, JENDL-3PR1, ENDF/B-IV and LANL. For high threshold reactions and integral flux above 10MeV, the calculation based on JENDL-3 agrees well with the experiment, while the calculations of ENDF/B-IV and LANL underestimetes those compared to the experiment. For integral neutron flux of 0.16∼0.5 MeV, the calculation of JENDL-3 agrees well with the experiment. But in the case of ENDF/B-IV the underestimation is 20%. It can be concluded that the nuclear data of Be in JENDL-3 improves very much in accuracy from the temporary version JENDL-3PR1.