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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.
S. M. Ghiaasiaan, B. K. Kamboj, S. I. Abdel-Khalik
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 117 | Number 1 | May 1994 | Pages 22-32
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A13566
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Gravity-driven countercurrent two-phase flow, in channels connected to a sealed tank at one end and open to the atmosphere at the other end, was analytically studied. This type of gravity-driven countercurrent two-phase flow can occur during the operation of passive safety coolant injection systems of advanced reactors. A mechanistic model was developed for the oscillating flow regime, which occurs in inclined channels with a side-entry configuration when the channel angle of inclination with respect to the horizontal plane is more than 10 deg and in channels with a bottom-entry channel-tank interphase. The model was shown to satisfactorily predict the experimental data.