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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.
Yoshihiro Yamane, Minoru Shinkawa, Kojiro Nishina
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 2 | November 1979 | Pages 244-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19469
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For single-core reflected neutronic systems, generalized neutron generation time is derived and given physical interpretations in terms of importance. A system kinetic equation containing the moderator region response function previously introduced is reduced by a slow-variation approximation to the form of a conventional one-point kinetic equation, in which a parameter can be identified as generalized neutron generation time by analogy with a bare system. In such a mathematical expression for the parameter, one can further identify the amount of increase due to reflection over the bare system generation time. This amount is found to be the reflection time multiplied by the number of migrations that neutrons undergo between reflector and core in one generation. The theoretical generation time of the SHE assembly, a thermal-energy, graphite-moderated critical assembly, calculated by such a formulation with cylindrical geometry, agreed well with that from pulsed neutron experiments.