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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.
A. Paulsen, H. Liskien, F. Arnotte, R. Widera
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 377-385
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21371
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A measuring program has been carried out at the Van de Graaff accelerator facility of the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements for the determination of (n, α) cross sections on the main constituents of fast reactor structural materials, namely the elements chromium, iron, and nickel. The alpha particles are detected in a reaction chamber by telescope counter arrangements at five observation angles between 14 and 141 deg. Results obtained in the energy range from 5 to 10 MeV are presented in terms of laboratory angle-differential cross sections, relative Legendre polynomial coefficients of angular distributions, angle-integrated cross sections, and average alpha energies.