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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. Takeuchi, M. Y. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 4 | December 1988 | Pages 380-384
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23570
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Developed and applied to the WCOBRA/TRAC code for speed up is an implicit numerical method with an iterative solution scheme of semi-implicit format. For a sample problem of subcooled liquid, computation speed was increased by a factor of 2 to 3 or more. For problems involving phase transition and heat transfer, other techniques of iteration control, time-step control, adjustment of correlations, and numerical stabilizer were introduced. Consequently, computation speed was increased by a factor of 2.