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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.
R. J. Gehrke, R. G. Helmer, C. W. Reich
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 3 | June 1979 | Pages 298-306
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20151
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The emission probability of the 312-keV gamma ray from the decay of 27-day 233Pa has been measured. A 4π beta-gamma coincidence counting system was used to determine the 233Pa sample disintegration rates, and Ge(Li) spectrometers were used to measure the gamma-ray emission rates. The resulting value for the emission probability is Iγ (312 keV) = (38.6 ± 0.5) photon/100 decays. The relative intensities of the K x rays and gamma rays emitted in the decay of 233Pa were also measured.