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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.
W. Schütz, H. Sauter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 667-672
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18976
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Sodium evaporation rates from Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center-NALA experiments (experiments on aerosol release from a contaminated sodium pool into an argon or a nitrogen atmosphere) are presented. Pool temperatures were varied between 700 and 1000 K at different geometrical and convective conditions. Technical scale experiments with a 531-cm2 pool surface area were performed at natural convection in a 2.2-m3 heated vessel, as well as additional small scale experiments at forced convection and 38.5-cm2 pool surface area. The data are compared to the sodium vapor pressure. For the data at natural convection, a best fit formula is given.