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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.
Chae Y. Yang, Nam Z. Cho
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 3 | March 1989 | Pages 243-258
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23612
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A nonlinear reactor model is developed taking into account several feedback effects, such as moderator and fuel temperatures, xenon absorption, and soluble boron concentration, through energy balance relations in the core. The resulting equation belongs to a class of nonlinear boundary value problems, and it is shown through bifurcation theory that there may exist multiple steady-state solutions for a range of parameters that correspond to various design and operating conditions. Solutions are obtained numerically for ranges of the parameters by the arc-length continuation method in combination with Newton’s method. Stability analysis is also applied to each solution to investigate whether the solution is stable or not. When the stable and unstable regions of the steady-state solutions are plotted for a wide range of the parameters, we can choose a range of the reactor design and operating conditions such that the reactor does not encounter unstable situations.