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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.
Munir Ahmad, C. E. Brient, P. M. Egun, S. M. Grimes, S. Saraf, H. Satyanarayana
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 4 | April 1987 | Pages 296-303
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-296
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Cross sections for the emission of protons, deuterons, and alpha particles from enriched targets of 63Cu and 65Cu bombarded with 9- and 11-MeV neutrons were measured. A charged-particle time-of-flight spectrometer capable of detecting particles with energies as low as 1 MeV was used to make these measurements. Cross sections and spectra are compared with statistical and preequilibrium model calculations. Level density parameters of various nuclei resulting from the best simultaneous fit to present and previous 15-MeV data are inferred.