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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.
John F. Conant, Philip F. Palmedo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 2 | May 1971 | Pages 173-179
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19665
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The delayed-neutron fractions for thermal fission of 235U, 239Pu, and 233U were measured and found to be The technique used to perform the measurements was intrinsically simple and involved making only relative measurements. The basic approach was to compare the neutron production rate of a thin fissile sample in a thermal-neutron beam with the delayed-neutron production after an abrupt termination of the beam. The work was greatly enhanced through the use of a modified long counter that was developed at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The results of this work are in essential agreement with the presently accepted values, which were reported in 1957 and were measured by using a different technique than that used here.