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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.
Anil Kumar, Jacques Ligou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 1-7
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16358
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The Boltynann-Fokker-Planck (BFP) equation has been applied to treat the photon transport in highly anisotropic scattering media. Some benchmark cases relating to haze and cloud media have been investigated. It is found that, in general, the number of Legendre moments required for the BFP equation is a factor of ∼5 lower compared to that for the standard (discrete ordinates Sn) approach for solving the Boltzmann equation for the comparable precision on the integral quantities like the albedo and transmission factor. But BFP is much more economical if one seeks precision on angular fluxes.
