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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.
R. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 42 | Number 3 | December 1970 | Pages 335-351
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A21222
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Measurements have been made at the Tower Shielding Facility of the spectra of secondary gamma rays arising from fast-neutron interactions in samples of natural iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, titanium, potassium, calcium, sodium, silicon, nickel, barium, sulfur, and a type-321 stainless steel. The absolute spectra are expressed as values of (Δ Eγ) = 4π d/dΩ (ΔEγ, 90 deg), where (ΔEγ) is the production cross section in millibarns averaged over an incident neutron spectrum from 1 to 14 MeV for 0.5-MeV wide gamma-ray intervals lying between approximately 1 and 6.5 MeV in gamma-ray energy. These data are intended primarily as integral checks on existing and future production cross-section sets which are differential in both the gamma-ray and neutron energy. Agreement with existing sets of data is adequate for iron, nickel, chromium, calcium, and aluminum. The agreement is fair to poor for the remaining elements where comparisons could be made.