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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.
A. Bassini, F. Premuda, W. A. Wassef
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 2 | August 1979 | Pages 87-99
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20401
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For kernels appearing in the system of integral equations for Legendre moments of the angular flux, we propose a factorized form that also accounts for the anisotropy of scattering and works in the original Euclidean space. The stationary problem in the above simplified mathematical formulation for monoenergetic neutrons is then solved by a DKPL technique, i.e., a suitable basis is defined, in terms of Legendre polynomials of the space variables, and the corresponding Fourier series development is adopted for the space distribution to reduce the system of integral equations for such unknowns to an algebraic system on the unknown coefficients of their Fourier series expansion inside the homogeneous parallelepiped. This expansion converges in the mean and point-wise uniformly to the exact solution. Both critical and subcritical physical situations are considered, and accurate numerical results for isotropic scattering are obtained.