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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.
Ahmed Badruzzaman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 89 | Number 3 | March 1985 | Pages 281-290
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17550
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An algorithm is derived for implementing nodal-transport methods in multidimensional geometries more efficiently than with current algorithms. The cellwise storage and computational penalties of the nodal methods are reduced significantly. Central processing unit time is reduced two to four times over the direct nodal algorithm with a constant surface-flux approximation, and the number of coefficients required is reduced twofold. The corresponding reductions are even greater when the new algorithm is utilized in the linear surface flux nodal method. Results of testing in two- and three-dimensional rectangular geometry are presented.