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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.
H. Jasicek, F. Bensch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 1 | January 1981 | Pages 51-57
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21338
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The fast neutron emission spectrum of 252Cf has been investigated by means of proton-recoil spectrometers. With a large (900-mm-long) counter tube, the neutron distribution between 0.9 and 10 MeV could be determined. Monte Carlo calculated response functions were applied to unfold the measured proton-recoil distributions. With a smaller (466-mm-long) counter tube, the energy interval between 1 and 3 MeV was examined in a search for neutron fine-structure groups. No such groups could be established.
