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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.
Y. Ronen, D. G. Cacuci, J. J. Wagschal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 4 | April 1981 | Pages 426-437
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A18955
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A methodology that rests on the introduction of a generalized bias operator is developed to improve the agreement between “reference” and calculated values of all integral performance parameters in systems to be designed. This methodology is not as broad in scope as the data-adjustment technique, but it could be applied to designs as effectively as the less sophisticated, engineering-oriented, bias-factor method. It is simple and inexpensive from a computational standpoint and can reflect either calculational or experimental biases. Illustrative numerical results are presented and discussed.