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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.
S. Kaizerman, E. Wacholder, E. Elias
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 2 | June 1983 | Pages 166-168
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17724
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A simple flow pattern map (vm versus α coordinates) is proposed that provides computational means for selecting steam/water two-phase flow constitutive equations. This flow pattern map can easily be implemented in a thermal-hydraulic code. Determination of the map boundaries between different flow patterns for any channel hydraulic diameter is feasible. This determination is based partially on theoretical criteria that were developed for adiabatic two-phase flows and partially on physical reasoning. Good agreement is obtained between the predicted map regions and experimental data from uniformly heated four-rod bundle and tubes setups.