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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.
Shmuel Olek
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 105 | Number 3 | July 1990 | Pages 271-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A19191
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An exact solution using the Wiener-Hopf technique is derived for a rewetting model. In this mixed-boundary model, a constant heat transfer coefficient is assumed in the wetted part of the solid slab, whereas an exponentially decaying heat flux is assumed in that part of the solid that is cooled by a mixture of vapor and liquid droplets (the precursory cooling). The solution, which is of a simple form, is found to be in excellent agreement with a solution by separation of variables, previously obtained for the same problem. Numerical results are presented for a wide range of model parameters.