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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.
S. D. Paranjape, D. C. Sahni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 2 | February 1989 | Pages 153-165
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23604
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The linear Fokker-Planck equation characterizing charged-particle transport in a fully ionized plasma has been solved in one-dimensional spherical geometry by the techniques of Fourier transformation and Legendre expansion. The vacuum boundary condition at the plasma surface has been treated by appending to the plasma a fictitious medium in which angular dispersion is absent. The solution technique has been applied to the problem of alpha-particle slowing down in a fully ionized inertial confinement fusion plasma.