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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.
P. K. Sarkar, M. A. Prasad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 3 | June 1979 | Pages 243-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20146
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Integral equations are derived to provide the expected statistical error in any biased Monte Carlo transport calculation. The equations result from a generalization of a recent formulation by Amster and Djomehri. The present treatment is general enough to handle situations where more than one particle emerge from a collision with distribution in the statistical weights. These formulations have been used to obtain the variance and the number of collisions per history in a few Monte Carlo schemes using exponential transform. The schemes considered include procedures such as splitting, weighting in lieu of absorption, and next-event estimation. Optimization of different procedures as well as their comparative merits are discussed for a sample one-group problem.