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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. J. Perkins, N. Evans, Malcolm C. Scott, B. Y. Underwood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 1 | May 1981 | Pages 30-43
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19604
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A miniature NE-213 scintillation counter and hydrogen proportional counters have been used in conjunction with a calibrated 14-MeV deuterium-tritium neutron source to measure the neutron flux per source neutron per second at a number of positions in a 1.25-m-diam sphere of lithium fluoride. The experimental techniques used are discussed, and the resulting neutron spectra are compared with those from one-dimensional Sn calculations using the ENDF/B-IV data set, allowance being made both for neutron yield anisotropy and for the variation in source neutron energy with angle of emission.