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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.
Sten-Örjan Lindahl
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 4 | April 1974 | Pages 475-478
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23378
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Using the multigroup diffusion equation, a reciprocity relation is established for an arbitrarily shaped body. This relation expresses the flux caused by a source inside the body in terms of the flux resulting from an incident current on that body. In the multigroup case for one-dimensional bodies with flat sources and in the one-group case for rectangular two-dimensional bodies with an arbitrary source, practical formulas are derived from this relation. These give the leakage from a body in terms of its reflection and transmission properties. An advantage of the use of this reciprocity relation is the improved computational efficiency in response matrix calculations.