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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.
A. K. Chung, M. A. Prelas
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 3 | March 1984 | Pages 267-274
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17555
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The transport of heavy particles produced by the 10B(n,α)Li and 235U(n,νn)ff nuclear reactions in a two-region cylindrical geometry is analyzed. Total spatially dependent energy current, power density, and transport efficiency are calculated. These results are significantly different from what would be predicted using a two-region slab model—the model generally used for kinetic analysis of nuclear-pumped plasmas. The calculated transport efficiency for a 0.4 mg/cm2 10B coating was 9% and 16% for a 3.3 mg/cm2 235UO2 coating.
