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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.
D. K. Wehe, J. Schmidt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 145-152
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23711
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Recognizing that differential quantities are sometimes not of practical interest, a simple method for projecting integral quantities is presented. The technique uses only the measured moments of the differential quantity to predict other moments and does not require an explicit a priori knowledge of the differential spectrum. The particular application discussed involves prediction of integral quantities from multiple-foil neutron activations, including integral fast fluxes and activities. In energy regions with good response function coverage, the technique is shown to yield reasonably accurate predictions of the integral fluxes (within ∼15%) and other activities (within ∼30%) using a limited set of measured activities. The methods presented for predicting errors, however, were not as effective in providing reliable quantitative error estimates in all cases.