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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.
Charles N. Kelber
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 42 | Number 3 | December 1970 | Pages 257-259
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A21214
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The equivalence relation for the calculation of resonance capture employs a modified rod radius to account for inaccuracies in the Wigner rational approximation of the probability of escape from the rod. In this paper we extend older work to derive a correction to the mean chord length which depends on the peak resonance cross section, the potential scattering, and the rod radius. Such a formula represents a useful compromise between use of the less accurate but computationally convenient equivalence relation and accurate but computationally complex methods. By fitting the radius modifier over a wide range of values, the following representation is found: