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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 2 | June 1987 | Pages 153-158
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16375
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The “forward method” for sensitivity analysis was applied for high-order problems. The problems considered are those in which the state vector and the responses are nonlinear functions of the input parameters and/ or the modeling parameters. High-order sensitivities were obtained for both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous cases. For the inhomogeneous cases the usefulness of the “Green’s vector” was demonstrated. An example from reactor theory is presented.