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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.
J. W. Lucey, K. F. Hansen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 327-335
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19241
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The Stabilized March Technique, SMT, is extended to the numerical solution of second-order, inhomogeneous problems, i.e., the multigroup neutron diffusion equations in one space dimension, and the one-velocity neutron transport equation in one space dimension. In the SMT, the solution vector is expanded in a complete set of vectors which is used in an unstable difference equation. The error growth is controlled, however, by periodic matrix transformations and may be preset. The method has its greatest advantage in relation to the computational speed of conventional methods in elongated meshes, such as multigroup diffusion calculations, or low-order discrete ordinate or PN calculations with many spatial mesh points.