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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.
C. Y. Fu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 1 | September 1991 | Pages 18-25
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23841
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Pairing corrections in particle-hole (exciton) state-density formulas used in precompound nuclear reaction theories are, strictly speaking, dependent on the nuclear excitation energy U and the exciton number n. A general formula for (U, n)-dependent pairing corrections was derived earlier for the exciton state-density formula for a system of one kind of fermion. A similar derivation is made for a system of two kinds of fermions, a system in which neutrons and protons occupy different sets of single-particle states. It is shown that the constant-pairing-energy correction used in standard statedensity formulas, such as U0 in Gilbert and Cameron, is a limiting case of the present general (U, n)-dependent results. Spin cutoff factors are calculated using the same pairing theory and parameterized into an explicit (U, n)-dependent function, thereby defining the exciton level-density formula for two kinds of fermions. The results show that the ratios in the exciton level densities in the one- and two-fermion approaches vary with both U and n, thus, most likely leading to differences in calculated compound-to-precompound ratios. However, the differences in the spin cutoff factors in the two cases are found to be rather small.