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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. I. Bhuiyan, R. W. Roussin, J. L. Lucius, J. H. Marable, D. E. Bartine
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 93 | Number 3 | July 1986 | Pages 313-317
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17760
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Three models, a linear, exponential or BEST, and a power model, developed using sensitivity theory to predict deep-penetration neutron transport in practical shielding problems, have been generalized into a common expression. One can obtain any of the above three models from this generalized expression simply by choosing the proper index parameters. Subsequently, a scheme for implementation of this into a computer code was adopted in “SENATOR.” SENATOR replaces the SENTINEL module of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) FORSS system. The supporting data bases (i.e., the sensitivity profile) and the Fortran code, along with some utility programs, are assembled in a package identified as CONSENT and can be obtained through the Radiation Shielding Information Center at ORNL.