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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. E. Weise, A. Foderaro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 54 | Number 1 | May 1974 | Pages 85-93
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23395
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Expansion coefficients for the Klein-Nishina differential cross section are presented for 17 energies in the range 0.1 to 12.0 MeV. The maximum order of these coefficients for the higher photon energies is L = 35. An interpolation procedure for the generation of expansion coefficients at additional energies is also presented. A study is made of the errors introduced in the Klein-Nishina cross section when finite order polynomial approximations are used. The error investigation includes average-weighted percent error, local percent error at θ = 0, forward-weighted percent error, and angular regions in which the expanded differential cross section is negative. The average-weighted percent error is found to be indicative of all other errors. Results indicate that cross-section errors at various energies and orders of expansion may be readily predicted. Several methods are introduced for determining a suitable degree of expansion to ensure accuracy of the finite order expansion of the Klein-Nishina differential cross section.