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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.
L. Green, J. A. Mitchell, N. M. Steen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 3 | November 1973 | Pages 406-412
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A19488
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The 233U fission neutron spectrum has been measured by pulsed-beam time-of-flight techniques from 0.8 to 10 MeV. Above ≈2 MeV, the data were found, within statistics, to be adequately represented by either the model in the ENDF/B-III file or a best fit Maxwellian distribution with nearly the same average energy. At lower energy, the data appear to follow the ENDF/B representation somewhat more closely. The fit of a Maxwellian distribution to the 233U data yielded an average “temperature” parameter of 1.34 ± 0.02 MeV, where the error includes both statistical and systematic uncertainties. A similar fit to data taken for a 235U sample yielded a temperature parameter of 1.31 ± 0.03 MeV; however, the best estimated difference in temperature is 16 ± 6 keV.