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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.
J. H. Warner, Jr., R. C. Erdmann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 332-341
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20011
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An energy-dependent transport theory solution for the infinite medium neutron-wave propagation problem is obtained by applying a Laguerre polynomial expansion to represent the flux energy dependence. Integral transform methods are utilized to determine solutions appropriate for a general isotropic scattering kernel and general cross sections. Detailed calculations are performed for a two-term polynomial expansion and an energy-dependent cross-section model. Although the polynomial expansion approximation appears to be quite satisfactory for low modulation frequencies, serious inadequacies exist for higher frequencies where continuum effects are important. A critical frequency is not predicted, and the two-dimensional continuum of eigenvalues is approximated by a series of cuts, the number of which depends on the number of terms in the expansion.