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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.
K. Takeuchi, S. Tanaka, M. Kinno
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 3 | July 1981 | Pages 273-283
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A20304
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For the transport calculation of gamma rays including bremsstrahlung, an improvement is made in the PALLAS-PL, SP discrete ordinates direct-integration code to enable evaluation of bremsstrahlung. The electrons resulting from Compton scattering, pair production, and the photoelectric effect are individually evaluated based on the primary gamma-ray flux calculated with the code. Bremsstrahlung production is then calculated by applying the continuous electron slowing down model. For this purpose, both the electron stopping power and the differential cross section for bremsstrahlung production are evaluated. Comparisons of PALLAS calculations with experiments are presented to test the validity of this code and method. As a result, it has been observed that the PALLAS calculations result in fairly good agreement with experiments, except for some discrepancies at energies below ∼0.7 MeV in the energy spectrum transmitted through lead and iron from a plane isotropic 6.2-MeV gamma-ray source. There is agreement also with another experiment on the attenuation by lead of transmission dose ∼8-MeV gamma rays in a normally incident from a plane monodirectional source. Further, there is agreement with the energy spectrum in lead calculated by a moments method for a plane monodirectional 8-MeV source without inclusion of secondary photons. Also presented are calculations of buildup factors and of energy spectra, including the contribution of bremsstrahlung, for a plane monodirectional beam of 8-MeV gamma rays normally incident on lead and on tungsten.