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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.
Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Shun-ichi Tanaka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 90 | Number 2 | June 1985 | Pages 158-164
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17673
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Gamma-ray exposure buildup factors are calculated using a discrete ordinates direct integration code, PALLAS-PL, SP-Br, for water, concrete, iron, and lead for point isotropic sources. These data include the effects of secondary photon sources arising from Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung, and annihilation. Comparisons of these results without bremsstrahlung to values obtained earlier by moments calculations show reasonable agreement, except in some instances of deep penetration. The calculated buildup factors are tabulated for incident energies of 0.1 to 15 MeV (except for lead, where the lower energy is 0.4 MeV) and for penetration depths as great as 40 mfp.