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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.
R. D. Shelton, H. E. Stern, J. W. Watts
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 3 | June 1969 | Pages 304-308
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A18728
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A method for calculation of proton dose in a receiver behind a combination electromagnetic and material shield is described. Dose calculations for a typical Van Allen proton spectrum and three solar-proton-event spectra are presented. In general, the electromagnetic shield stops protons below a certain threshold energy and reduces the number and energy of protons above this energy, and material shielding is more effective against these protons of reduced energy since proton stopping power increases with decreasing energy.