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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.
P. Ramakrishnan, G. E. Mitchell, C. R. Gould, S. A. Wender, G. F. Auchampaugh, R. C. Little
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 4 | April 1988 | Pages 357-364
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23536
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A procedure for the determination of neutron-induced photon production cross sections is described, including corrections for the neutron-induced photon background and the unfolding of the gamma-ray spectra. As an example, data have been obtained for tantalum and beryllium with five bismuth germanate detectors and the high-energy white neutron source at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. Calculations and measurements indicate that a beryllium sample may be used to simulate a neutron-induced photon background. Results for the Ta(n,xγ) reaction for neutron energies below En = 20 MeV are compared with previous measurements at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator.