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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.
Shin-ichi Ito
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 4 | December 1972 | Pages 458-467
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22565
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A new method is presented for investigating the behavior of pulsed fast neutrons in non-multiplying semi-infinite systems. The time- and space-dependent multigroup P1 equation (of the telegrapher’s equation type) was analytically solved by the use of the Laplace transform. Starting from the space dependent first time moments on the decaying group-wise neutron fluxes, the propagation parameters are newly defined as the fundamental parameters to describe the characteristics of the fast neutron moderation in the medium. These parameters include the space independent mean life time and the inverse of the effective velocity of neutron propagation. The proposed method will be useful in investigating the space dependent neutron slowing down and propagation phenomena in assemblies.