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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.
M. Salvatores, I. Slessarev, A. Tchistiakov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 309-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A2008
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A general physical approach and simplified algorithm have been developed that allow utilities to choose their strategy for treatment of the most dangerous long-lived fission products (either to incinerate under neutron flux or to store in underground repository) as well as to assess the overall neutron consumption needed for their incineration in a fast neutron spectrum. It has been demonstrated that if nuclear power can solve transuranic (TRU) waste transmutation problems and be able to incinerate the most toxic long-lived nuclides, such as Tc, I, and Cs (it demands ~0.15 n/fission for all these nuclides without isotopic separation), then the long-term radiotoxicity in the underground repository will not exceed the initial radiotoxicity of uranium fuel. This is one of the most important criteria of the radiologically clean nuclear power concept. Hence, apart from TRU transmutation problems, the emphasis is now on long-lived fission product incineration.