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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.
Esam M. A. Hussein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 416-422
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23867
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Some approximate estimators for obtaining the fluence at a point in Monte Carlo neutron transport calculations are presented and compared with the commonly used next event estimator. These estimators do not require direct evaluation of the scattering probability using Legendre expansions of the differential angular cross sections. The estimators are particularly useful for Monte Carlo programs that sample scattering directions in the center-of-mass coordinate system.