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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.
O. J. Wallace
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 1 | May 1981 | Pages 85-88
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19610
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A nonsingular form of the point kernel integrand based on the work of Ono and Tsuro has been implemented for cylindrical sources in two point-kernel computer programs. Numeric integration over the source volume is accomplished by Gauss quadrature or by a three-dimensional extension of Patterson's automatic quadrature algorithm. The latter flux calculation method is two to five times faster for exterior detector points when compared to the Patterson algorithm quadrature of the conventional form of the point kernel over a cylinder.