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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.
Mark Landesman, J. E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 1 | September 1989 | Pages 1-11
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23655
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Two new methods for decomposing scattering cross sections into the forward-peaked and smooth components required for Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck calculations are presented. The first is slightly simpler than existing methods and offers the same level of effectiveness. The second is more expensive than existing methods, but is much more effective. Legendre moments that give a positive representation for the angular Fokker-Planck operator and can be used in standard Sn codes are presented. Computational results are given that demonstrate the effectiveness of these new decomposition and representation techniques.