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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.
Chien C. Lin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 4 | August 1988 | Pages 390-393
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23567
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The radiolytic gas production rate in boiling water reactors has been reevaluated. The results of recent measurements of the dissolved gases in the main steam samples agree very well with the average production rate measured from the off-gas samples. The best estimate total gas (H2 and O2) production rate is 19.3 ± 0.06 cm3/s-MW(thermal)−1, and the average O2 content in steam is 17.5 ppm. The observed G(H2) and G(O2) values in the reactor core are estimated to be 0.24 and 0.12 molecule/100 eV, respectively.
