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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.
K. J. Yost, J. E. White, C. Y. Fu, W. E. Ford, III
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 209-220
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22398
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Gamma-ray yields as a function of neutron energy for tantalum and tungsten have been generated with a combined experimental and theoretical approach. The results are presented in a format that would facilitate use in coupled neutron gamma-ray transport calculations. In the case of tungsten, pronounced variations in the capture yield spectra were noticed above 3.0 MeV. On the other hand, only slight variations in the yield spectra were evident for tantalum. The results have been compared with integral gamma-ray yield measurements and the agreement is favorable.