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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. D. Jenkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 2 | August 1970 | Pages 155-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20703
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Information from the Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF/B) has been used to construct energy-exchange kernels describing the energy transfer probabilities between neutrons and material lattice atoms. The kernels correctly incorporate all the available information on elastic scattering and inelastic scattering contained in ENDF/B. Their use removes much of the uncertainty in the calculation of primary-recoil spectra. Primary-recoil atom spectra for several elements in different reactor spectra have been generated. The influence of inelastic scattering on the recoil spectra is discussed. Results obtained with the ENDF/B data are compared with previously published information.