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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.
A. Padilla, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 4 | December 1974 | Pages 452-461
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23478
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A set of high-temperature thermodynamic properties for sodium in the two-phase and subcooled-liquid regions has been predicted for the region between the low-temperature properties recommended by Golden and Tokar and the critical temperature. This set of high-temperature properties is recommended for consistent thermodynamic calculations in reactor safety analyses involving sodium. The saturation properties determined are: vapor pressure, liquid and vapor density, liquid and vapor enthalpy, liquid and vapor entropy, liquid compressibility (adiabatic and isothermal), liquid thermal-expansion coefficient, and liquid specific heat (constant pressure and constant volume). The subcooled-liquid properties determined are: pressure, enthalpy, entropy, compressibility (adiabatic and isothermal), thermal-expansion coefficient, and specific heat (constant pressure and constant volume).