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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.
J. A. Halbleib, Sr., M. R. Scott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 37 | Number 2 | August 1969 | Pages 271-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20687
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Extensive calculations have been carried out for neutron production from the 3H(d,n)4He, 3H(p,n)3He, and 2H(d,n)3He reactions using hydrated titanium targets. Both thin and totally stopping targets have been considered for ion energies up to 5 MeV. By using the appropriate ion energy, production angle, and reaction, and allowing an energy spread of 10%, it is found that one can obtain neutron current densities of the same order of magnitude with energies from 0 to 22 MeV except for the gap between 8 and 12 MeV. Above 1 MeV variation of all pertinent neutron production characteristics with target loading ratio are found to be essentially the same regardless of reaction type, ion energy, or production angle. Total neutron yields are also calculated along with an example neutron-energy spectrum.