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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.
T. W. Armstrong, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 291-296
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19236
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Results from Monte Carlo calculations of the longitudinal and lateral development of the nucleon-meson cascade in iron initiated by 1- and 3-GeV protons are presented and compared with experimental results. In general, the calculated and experimental results are in good agreement, although in the 3-GeV case the calculation yields a smaller buildup of particles for the smaller penetration depths. The Monte Carlo results for the longitudinal development are also compared with available results from a calculation using the straightahead approximation, and the agreement is quite good.