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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.
Charles A. Wemple, Ilhan Dilber, Thomas J. Downar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 1 | May 1988 | Pages 36-40
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23543
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A vectorized source algorithm was developed for the Electric Power Research Institute light water reactor core nodal code SIMULA TE-E. The existing line successive displacement scheme was replaced by configuring the source for all nodes in a given plane as a single vector that could be computed simultaneously. Power distributions and eigenvalues for all test problems agreed exactly with the original scalar code. A factor of 2 to 7 reduction in execution time was achieved for typical pressurized water reactor problems on the CYBER 205.