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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.
Yorio Gotoh, Hiroshi Takahashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 2 | August 1971 | Pages 126-140
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20880
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Since the model in which the water molecules form partially “ice-like” clusters explains the thermodynamic properties, the so-called itinerant oscillator model is applied to the motion of water molecules. The assumption is made that the atoms in a molecule receive stochastic forces from the neighboring molecules. The model of water with the stochastic force, of which the correlation functions are a delta function and a simple exponential, is discussed. The generalized frequency distributions of light and heavy water are derived from the model. The incoherent calculations of scattering laws of light and heavy water are compared with measurements. The model predicts well the total scattering cross section of light water, but the average cosine of scattering angle is slightly higher than that of the experiment. Further refinements in the model are discussed.