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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.
N. Papmehl, Hans J. Zech
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 4 | April 1972 | Pages 435-448
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22435
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An explicit formulation of the one-velocity order of scattering method for neutrons is developed assuming plane geometry and anisotropic scattering. Calculations for the half-space albedo problem based on this method were performed for isotropic scattering and were checked against known results. Further numerical studies of reflection and transmission of slabs yield detailed information about the order of scattering needed for a desired accuracy and for given thickness and absorption of the slab. For slab thickness up to one mean-free-path eighth order of scattering is shown to yield deviations from exact values of <1%.