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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.
Raphael Aronson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 2 | February 1984 | Pages 136-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-136
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The results of high-order PN calculations for the one-speed albedo and Milne problems in spherical geometry are presented. The computations were performed by the transfer matrix approach. The analysis is included in the paper. Reflection probabilities are given for spheres of various radii and for the region exterior to spheres: reflection and transmission probabilities for spherical shells and extrapolation lengths for the exterior Milne problem. The method is found to diverge for sufficiently high values of N—the smaller the radius, the more rapidly divergence sets in. For moderate and large radii (≳2 mfp), the method nevertheless gives generally excellent results.