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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.
Richard Ziskind, William E. Kastenberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 1 | April 1971 | Pages 86-94
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A18908
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The stability problem for point kinetics models described by a set of nonlinear differential equations is treated by conversion to a set of Volterra integral equations. The kernels appearing in the resultant set are classified as to monotone behavior and comparison theorems are presented for the various classifications. The comparison theorems are utilized to calculate solution bounds and stability domains for three systems of practical interest: prompt power feedback, single temperature with prompt power coefficient, and the Hansen-Fuchs model. It is shown that similarity transformations are useful for enlarging the stability domain. An iteration procedure is also developed for a particular class of integral operators. This procedure is useful for finding convergent bounds for the true system behavior.